 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown...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... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown...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... | |
 | English literature - 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...brains for daily bread : Getting scant dross for the rich ore they give, A FEW THOUGHTS ON FUNERALS. 'Tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death !' SHAKSPEARE. IN ray morning walk in the country, the other day, a common poorhouse hearse passed... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...for daily bread : Getting scant dross for the rich ore they give, A FEW THOUGHTS ON FCNERALS, "T¡a too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death !' SHAKSPEARE. IN my morning walk in the country, the other day, a common poorhouse hearse passed me.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...their country's glory and her shame. 1837.] Tfumghts on Funerals. 229 A PEW THOUGHTS ON FUNERALS. 'Tia too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death !' SHAKSPEAIII. IN my morning walk in the country, the other day, a common poorhouse hearse passed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless* winds, And blown...nature, is a paradise • To what we fear of death. 5 — iii. 1 . d Rustic life. * Command, control. 518 Greatness, the pain of separating from. The soul... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice -, ݘ$ \ 4 [:3 ޔ K0 u : ach, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. Isab. Alas... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...look with complacency on that Gorgon death, — in such a case I say with the poet — The wearied and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury,...on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death ! Now, this admitted, he, who by a course of meditation and prayer has fitted himself for the other... | |
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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... 
