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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 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods... "
The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to the ... - Page 71
by James Boswell - 1835
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Cruces Shakespearianae: Difficult Passages in the Works of Shakespeare : the ...

Benjamin Gott Kinnear - 1883 - 524 pages
...Camb. eds. retain "premie." Note ,17.) Ib. Line 121,— " 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 kneadeti clod : and the benighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods." " Motion" = life; so B. and J....
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The Iowa State Medical Reporter, Volume 4

1886 - 494 pages
...Wisconsin Natural History Society, etc. (FOR THE REPORTER.) " 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 clot — 'tis too horrible! " — Shakespeare. Although over-crowding of cemeteries is confined...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour ..., Volume 6

James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...approaching end was constantly before his eyes ; and the prospect of death, he declared, was terrible. For many years, when he was not disposed to enter...sat near his chair, might hear him repeating, from Shakespeare, " Aye, bnt to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ;...
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Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...approaching end was constantly before his eyes ; and the prospect of death, he declared, was terrible. For many years, when he was not disposed to enter...sat near his chair, might hear him repeating, from Shakespeare, " Aye, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ;...
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 2

1885 - 304 pages
...the first scene of the third act, commencing : — " 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." AYE, but to love, and not be loved again, To nurse a hopeless passion, and to pine, This body strong...
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Future Punishment, Or, Does Death End Probation?: Materialism, Immortality ...

William Cochrane - 1886 - 568 pages
...poet says, " a hateful one," but death is a fearful thing : " 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 ; * * * 'Tis too horrible ' The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment...
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Poems and Essays

Jones Very - 1886 - 568 pages
...a kneaded clod of the sensible warm motion of life. " 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 1. 1 1. .1. !, rl clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's ..., Volume 4; Volumes 1780-1784

James Boswell - 1887 - 466 pages
...eagerness to retard his dissolution. BOSWELL. Murphy (Life, p. 122) says that 'for many years, when Johnson was not disposed to enter into the conversation going...whoever sat near his chair might hear him repeating from Shakespeare \Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1] :— " Ay, but to die and go we know not where ;...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life

James Boswell - 1887 - 470 pages
...to retard his dissolution. BOSWELL. 1 Murphy (Life, p. 122) says that 'for many years, when Johnson was not disposed to enter into the conversation going...whoever sat near his chair might hear him repeating from Shakespeare {Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1] : — " Ay, but to die and go we know not where ;...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...to mutter to himself the lines from Shakespeare — "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." ' " No rational man," he once said, " could die without uneasy apprehension." But when his last hour...
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