 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 pages
...perdurably fin'd ? — O Isabel ! Isab. What says my brother ? Claud. Death is a fearful thing. Isab. And shamed life a hateful. Claud. Ay, but to die,...To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...Claudio in the " Measure for Measure" of Shakspeare:— I " Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible...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... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...translation, or rather imitation, is by Mr. Murphy.] " 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, For fear of pain, this intellectual being!" 580. Essex-Head... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...FaFP; FF; FiP; LiTB; SoSe; TrGrPo Measure for Measure 1 15 Ay, but to die, and go we know not where. To inen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives!...Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as we region of thick-ribbed ice, To be imprisoned in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...literature: it's like a great aria in an opera. He begins: 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 imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...under torture — does not make it seem entirely medieval: Ay, 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 region of thick-ribbed ice, To be imprison' d in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...know not where; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneeded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods,...thick-ribbed ice: To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of... | |
 | Maurice O'Sullivan - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...keep to love and shudder at= [He rises and speaks it.] Ay, 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 region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence... | |
 | Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - Performing Arts - 2002 - 180 pages
...fearful thing. ISABELLA And shamed life a hateful. CLAUDIO Ay, 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 region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence... | |
 | Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 172 pages
...tells Isabella what he really feels about his execution: Ay, 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 region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence... | |
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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... 
