 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...more perfect and higher nature, suffering may not, perhaps, be a concomitant. Claudio continues — "the weariest and most loathed worldly life, that...on nature, is a paradise to what we fear of death." This is infinitely finer than Hamlet's soliloquy — more positively true ; this is " that pale cast... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 596 pages
...to make him 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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1836 - 780 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,... | |
 | Stephen Kern - Art - 1996 - 302 pages
...we know not 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... | |
 | Bob Spall, Stephen Callis - Medical - 1997 - 220 pages
...practice? Thinking about our own death 6 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. William Shakespeare: Measure for Measure Act III Scene 1 The meanings we assign to death help shape... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...thoughts 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. A young fool in a dungeon whining out That his dear body, which is all he knows, Having no hint of... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...losses'.7 Tis 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),... | |
 | Lawrence J. Ross - Drama - 1997 - 194 pages
...what he 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...thought Imagine howling — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loath'd worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, (1564-1616) British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Measure for Measure, act 3, sc.1,... | |
 | Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - Performing Arts - 2002 - 180 pages
...thought 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. ISABELLA Alas, alas! CLAUDIO Sweet sister, let me live. What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature... | |
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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. 
