 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...fearful thing. ISABELLA And shamed life a hateful. And Claudio launches into his devastating vision of death: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;...sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod, and the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...keep to love and shudder at= [He rises and speaks it.] Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible...To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence... | |
 | Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - Performing Arts - 2002 - 180 pages
...fearful thing. ISABELLA And shamed life a hateful. CLAUDIO Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible...To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - Drama - 1997 - 260 pages
...then with Isabella: 'Sweet sister, let me live' (132). His ruminations on the physical deprivations of death - 'ay, but to die, and go we know not where,...to rot, / This sensible warm motion to become / A kneaded clod' (117-20) - give voice to what is clinically known as depression: what Kubler-Ross describes... | |
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Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice... 
