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" tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. "
The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 73
by British essayists - 1802
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

English literature - 1835 - 344 pages
...that lawless and uncertain thoughte Imagine, howling ! tis too horrible ! The weariest and most lothed worldly life That age, ache, penury, imprisonment,...nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. It was awful to see the impression produced upon Burrows and his wife, at the sieht of the dying gipsy....
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...howling ! — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." Our author seems likewise to have remembered a couplet in the " Aureng-Zebe" of Dryden : — " Death...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...howling ! — 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." Our author seems likewise to have remembered a couplet in the " Aureng-Zebe" of Dryden : — " Death...
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Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...howling ! — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." Our author seems likewise to have remembered a couplet in the " Aureng-Zebe" of Dryden : — " Death...
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Tremaine ; Or, The Man of Refinement, Volumes 1-2

Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1836 - 782 pages
...howling ! 'Tis too horrible I The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, or imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death ! ' ' Tremaine did not answer, but evidently, by his countenance and gestures, felt all the force,...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 16

English literature - 1836 - 596 pages
...sensible of his condition. " The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise, To what we fear of death." To drag a man out of his solitude, to rate him, and before a congregation of mercenary, cold-hearted...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 568 pages
...Imagine howlin» !— 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ach, ed on ;' Whom zeal and charity brought to the field, As God's ow ft-ar of death. /*«/*. Alas ! alas ! Claud. Sweet sister, let me live " What sin you do to save a...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...FUNERALS. 'Tia too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death !' SHAKSPEAIII. IN my morning walk in the country, the other day, a common poorhouse hearse passed...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...FCNERALS, "T¡a too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death !' SHAKSPEARE. IN my morning walk in the country, the other day, a common poorhouse hearse passed me....
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 3

Robert Plumer] [Ward - 1837 - 320 pages
...crimes unwhipp'd of justice.' " ' The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, acts, penury or imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear in death.' bles are come about me ; my sins have taken such hold of me, that I am not able to look...
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