 | 1816 - 770 pages
...the points of liberty ! Milton. (.Part required of time or fpace; critical moment ;' exact place. — How oft, when men are at the point of death, . Have they been merry ? • Shak. — Efcu ftid, behold I am at the point to die. Gen. xxv. 31. — Democritus, fpent with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...presence 8 full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. [Laying PARIS in the Monument. How oft when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry, which their keepers call A lightning before death : O, how may I Call this a lightning ? — O, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819 - 646 pages
...presence full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. ^Laying Pañí in the monument. How oft, when men are at the point of death, Have they bei n merry ? which their keepers call à lightning before death : O, how may I Ml this a lightning... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 pages
...fore-tokens of good and evil. Johnson. The poet has explained thispassage himself a little further on: " How oft, when men are at the point of death, " Have they been men-y i. which their keepers call " A lightning before death." Again, in G Whetstone's Castle of Delight,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 540 pages
...those miserable conceits with which our author too frequently counteracts his own pathos. STEEVENS. How oft when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry ? which their keepers call A lightning before death : O, how may I Call this a lightning b ? — O,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 558 pages
...room. VOL. VIII. R Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. 8 [Laying PARIS in the Manument. How oft when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry ? which their keepers call A lightning before death : O, how may I Call this a lightning 9? — O,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 414 pages
...presence' full of light. Death, lie thou there by a dead man interr'd. [Laying PARIS in the Monument. How oft, when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry ? which their keepers call A lightning before death : O, how may I Call this a lightning ?—O, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 512 pages
...presence4 full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interrM. [Laying^ Paris in the monument How oft when men are at' the point of death , Have they been merry ? which their keeirers call A lightning before death : O, how may I ^a!l this a lightning? — O, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1824 - 370 pages
...presence J full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. [Laying Paris in the monument. How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry ? which their keepers call A lightning before death : O, how may I Call this a lightning ? — O, my... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...foretokens of good and evil.'—Johnson. The poet has explained this passage a little further on:—• ' How oft, when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry ? which their keepers call A lightning before death.' 3 Shakspeare seems to have remembered Marlowe's... | |
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How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning! 
