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Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 254 pages
...that lawless and uncertain thought Imagine howling - 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment...on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, III.i.118) Death is a fear-based taboo. There is fear of the loss...
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Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson - 2006 - 714 pages
...thought Imagines howling: 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loaded worldly life, That pain, age, penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.I find, by one of thy three letters, that my beloved had some account from Hickman of my interview...
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Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare

John Albert Murley, Sean D. Sutton - Drama - 2006 - 280 pages
...extreme: "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" (III.i.128-131, 117-126).88 The truth the Duke actually wants to convey lies somewhere in between,...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

Emma Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 6 pages
...that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling; 'tis too horrible. The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. (3.1.116—32) This little kernel at the heart of the play is a bit of the almost contemporaneous play...
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Looking for Hamlet

Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...lawless and uncertain thought Imagine howling — 'tis too horrible! OO The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment...on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. Hamlet, in contrast to the genuinely terrified Claudio of Measure for Measure, commands a unique authority...
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T. Joyner Drolsum - 2007 - 365 pages
...obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod .... 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."33 Of course, these feelings are not unremitting. There are times when this same irreligious...
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The Suffering of Love: Christ's Descent Into the Hell of Human Hopelessness

Regis Martin - History - 2006 - 292 pages
...And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. . . . 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.56 "There is no other", Lynch reminds us, "who could say as authentically, of human time, as...
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An Actor's Edition of Shakespeare Revisited

James R. Hartman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 518 pages
...'Tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, chronic pain, extreme poverty, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death, Alas, alas! Sweet sister, let me Eve: What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature pardons the...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

Penny Gay - Literary Criticism - 2008
...and to rot, This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. . . . Sweet sister, let me live. (3.1.116-33) Isabella can save Claudio if she submits to Angelo 's...
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