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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... "
A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets - Page 110
by Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 761 pages
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Life of Francis Beaumont. Life of John Fletcher. Prefaces. Commendatory ...

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...celebrated passage. " Ay, but to die, and go we know not where j To lie jn cold obstruction, and lo rot : This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded...reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice." The epithet delighted in the fourth line is extremely beautiful, as it carries on the fine antithesis...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: In Nine Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...fearful thing. Isab. And shamed life a hateful. Clau. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling...
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The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: In Fourteen Volumes: with an ..., Volume 1

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...peculiar graces in the following celebrated passage:— " Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot: This sensible...reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice." This sensible warm motion must become a kneaded clod, and this spirit, delighted as it has hitherto...
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A Sermon, Delivered in Boston, Sept. 16, 1813: Before the American Board of ...

Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pages
...poet: "Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; Thiff sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted...reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...chair might hear him repeating from Shakespeare, : " Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods." and from Milton, Who would lose, i For fear of pain, this intellectual being ! On the 4th of April,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...fearful thing. hab. And shamed life a hateful. CYau. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be iutprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ;...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 332 pages
...fearful thing. Isa. And shamed life a hateful. Claud. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...And blown, with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling...
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A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 pages
...contrasted almost immediately afterwards with his fine description of death as the worst of ills: To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible...to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice. 'Tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment,...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...thing. Isabella. And shamed life a hateful. Claudia. Aye, 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 legions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewlesi winds, And blown with restless violence...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...Claud. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; ThU sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted...winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world, or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling...
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