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" In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and incertain... "
Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker]. - Page 388
edited by - 1836
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Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays: With Remarks ...

John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...right. P. 88. .-68.— 286. The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ach, penury, a .d imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. " When Claudia, in Measurefor Measure, pleads " for his life, in that famous speech, Aye, but to die,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 522 pages
...howling! — 'tis too horrihle! The weariest and most loathed worldlv life, That age, ach, penury,5 and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.6 to the sharpness of the torments spoken of. The Oxford editor not apprehending this, alters...
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Flowers of Literature: For 1804: Or, Characteristic Sketches of Human Nature ...

1805 - 590 pages
...A Talc. " The weariest and most loathed worldly life That pain, age, penury, and imprisonment Call lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death."— — SHAKSPEAKI. THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; Twas therefore...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 426 pages
...Imagine howling ! — 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ach, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. Isab. Alas ! alas ! Claud. Sweet sister, let me live : What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1806 - 572 pages
...the principle of Claudio that " The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penory,. imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear uf death"— and therefore he thinks that, by threatening the life of his victim, he shall wring from...
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Stultifera Navis; ...: The Modern Ship of Fools

William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 330 pages
...and 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, * This verse of the poet is not only applicable to the renowned and free thinking Voltaire, but may,...
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Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship ...

William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 356 pages
...and 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. * This verse of the poet is not only applicable to the renowned and free thinking Voltaire, but may,...
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The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson ..., Volume 9

William Shakespeare - 1807 - 382 pages
...Imagine howling ! — 'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ach, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. Claud. Sweet sister, let me live : What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature dispenses with...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With Explanatory Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...Imagine howling! — 'tis too horrible ! he"weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ach, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. hab. Alas ! alas ! Claud. Sweet sister, let me live: What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature...
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The British Essayists;: Mirror

Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 356 pages
...too horrible! 1 The weariest and most loathed worldly Ufe, • That age, ache, penury, imprisonment 1 Can lay on nature, is a paradise • To what we fear of death.' ' It is impossible,' said she, ' to read those lines ' without being affected by them. Yet, were I...
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