 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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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