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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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Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...howling ! — 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ach, penury, and n k[7U $a Am 5 C3k\ Ih Q vA Isab. Alas ! alas ! Claud. Sweet sister, let me live : What sin you do to save a brother's life. Nature...
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 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. 5 — iii. 1 . d Rustic life. * Command, control. 518 Greatness, the pain of separating from. The soul...
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Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues ...

Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...case I say with the poet — The wearied and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death ! Now, this admitted, he, who by a course of meditation and prayer has fitted himself for the other...
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The History of Hell

Alice K. Turner - Architecture - 1993 - 324 pages
...Imagines 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. That is as far as Shakespeare cared to go on the subject. Even uncensored, playwrights were probably...
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Aging and Old Age

Richard A. Posner - Family & Relationships - 1995 - 396 pages
...Claudio's observation that "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." " There is an economic as well as a biological reason why the old should dread, or should behave in...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 148 pages
...Imagine 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.70 ISABELLA Alas, alas! CLAUDIO Sweet sister, let me live! 120 130 yo Nature dispenses with the...
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Eyes of Love: The Gaze in English and French Paintings and Novels, 1840-1900

Stephen Kern - Art - 1996 - 308 pages
...where: '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. 31 Joseph A. Kestner provides compelling evidence that Leighton was sexually suppressed and homoerotic...
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Coming of Age in Shakespeare

Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...too horrible!' he exclaims, 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' (127-31). At last the 'friar' intervenes once more, to dispel all hope: Tomorrow you must die' (168),...
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On Measure for Measure: An Essay in Criticism of Shakespeare's Drama

Lawrence J. Ross - Drama - 1997 - 194 pages
...fears of death but of what we do. 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. (128-31) The first move of the dialogue affirms that the opening statement of the scene in the Friar's...
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Duologues for All Accents and Ages

Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - Performing Arts - 2002 - 180 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. ISABELLA Alas, alas! CLAUDIO Sweet sister, let me live. What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature...
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