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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. "
Greek Genius, and Other Essays - Page 200
by John Jay Chapman - 1915 - 318 pages
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Trial of the Twelve Spanish Pirates of the Schooner Panda, a Guinea Slaver ...

1834 - 60 pages
...added tenacity to life in proportion as we are deprived of all that makes existence to be coveted. The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age,...and imprisonment Can lay on Nature, is a Paradise To that we fear of Death. Jlnlonio en the Top-Gallant Yard. Death is a fearful thing. The mere mention...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling ! — 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly...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, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 460 pages
...or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling ! — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly...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 Book of Familiar Quotations: Being a Collection of Popular Extracts and ...

1871 - 340 pages
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1835 - 344 pages
...Imagine, howling ! tis too horrible ! The weariest and most lothed worldly life That age, ache, penury, imprisonment, Can lay on 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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Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling ! — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly...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 Metropolitan, Volume 16

1836 - 596 pages
...undergoing a violent death, need no aggravation of his misery, to make him sensible of his condition. " The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age,...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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United States Criminal History: Being a True Account of the Most Horrid ...

1836 - 564 pages
...added tenacity to life in proportion as we are deprived of all that makes existence to be coveted. The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age,...imprisonment Can lay on Nature, is a Paradise' To that we fear of DEATH. Death is a fearful thing. The mere mention of it sometimesblanches the cheek...
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Tremaine ; Or, The Man of Refinement, Volumes 1-2

Robert Plumer Ward - 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,...
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Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays

Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 pages
...about / The pendent world," hardly encourages the happy surrender of the worldly self to dispersal: The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age,...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. (3.1.117-31) So it is not surprising that Claudio finds no consolation in the disguised Duke's argument...
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