 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - Literary Collections - 2001 - 644 pages
...by common consent the worst form of that hoary iniquity that had ever cursed the earth. "The meanest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury,...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1." Now, as over against this life, we have had set for us the life... | |
 | Fiction - 2002 - 316 pages
...the delighted spirit 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...worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagines howling! 'Tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache,... | |
 | J. Philip Newell - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 148 pages
...where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age,...on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. (Measure III 1 119-35) The degree to which we neglect the contemplative within ourselves is the degree... | |
 | George Hochfield - Literary Collections - 2004 - 438 pages
...restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those lawless and uncertain thoughts Imagine howling! — 'tis too horrible! The...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. And again, in Clarence's dream of death so strongly is the resistance of the soul to this imprisoning... | |
 | Alan Segal - History - 2010 - 882 pages
...becoming fanaticism. Death Anxiety SHAKESPEARE himself portrays death anxiety in Measure for Measure: 'Tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly...on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. (Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 1, lines 127-131) Poor Claudio says these abject lines in the same... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 596 pages
...lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ,• . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age,...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death." Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure.' CLAUDIO AND ISABELLA. CLEREMONT 241 CLIFFORD and Fletcher, The... | |
 | John Palmer (Jun.) - Fiction - 2005 - 208 pages
...ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world, or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless...most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. SHAKESPEARE. ON perceiving... | |
 | H. B. Charlton - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 320 pages
...the delighted spirit 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...worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache,... | |
 | Kenneth Muir, Sean O'Loughlin - Art - 2005 - 264 pages
...about The pendant world : or to be worse then worst Of those, that lawlesse and incertaine thought, Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible. The weariest,...imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a Paradise To what we feare of death. This speech is the more impressive because it follows the superb one by the Duke, which,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...imprisoned in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age,...on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. [Claudio — 3. 1 . 1 33 -47] Take, O take those Lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn . . . [Song—... | |
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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... 
