 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...Diftroftand Darknefs of a future State, Make poor Mankind fo fearful of their Fate. Death in it felf is nothing, but we fear To be we know not what, -we know not where. Dryd. Avrsn, To be or not to be ! that is the Queftion ! Whether 'tis nobler in the Mind to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1717 - 464 pages
...Dlfh-uít, and Darknefs, of a future State, Make poor Mankind fo fearful of their Fate. Death, in it felf, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. [Soft Miftk, This is the Ceremony of my Fate: ' A parting Treat ; and I'm to die in State. They... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 436 pages
...AURENG-ZEBE alone. Distrust, and darkness, of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where. [Soft music. This is the ceremony of my fate : A parting treat ; and I'm to die in state. They... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...fear of death. Our author seems likewise to have remembered a couplet in the Aureng-Zebe of Dryden, Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear - To be we know not what, we know not where. Act. 4, Scene 1. It is in this paper, also, that one of the few pathetic paragraphs which are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...fear of death. Our author seems likewise to have remembered a couplet in the Aureng-Zebe of Dryden, Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. Act. 4, Scene 1. It is in this paper, also, that one of the few pathetic paragraphs which are... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...fear of death. Our author seems likewise to have remembered a. couplet in the Aureng-Zebe of Dryden, Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know no, what, we know not where. 'Act. 4, Scene 1. It is in this paper, also, that one of the few pathetic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 530 pages
...and go WE KNOW NOT WHERE ;] Dryden has imparted this sentiment to his Aureng-Zebe, Act IV. Sc. I. : " Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear " To be we know not what, we know not inhere." STEEVENS. * — delighted spirit — ] ie the spirit accustomed here to ease and delights.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 520 pages
...and go WE KNOW NOT WHERE;] Dryden has imparted this sentiment to his Aureng-Zebe, Act IV. Sc. I. : " Death in itself is nothing ; but we fear " To be we know not what, ive £ROUi not where." STEEVENS. J —delighted spirit — ] ie the spirit accustomed here to ease... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 458 pages
...pagan : " Distrust and darkness of a future state Makes poor mankind so fearful of his fate : Death of itself is nothing ; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where;" Such, or nearly such, must have been the reflections of the most serious among the heathen... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1824 - 484 pages
...pagan : " Distrust and darkness of a future state Makes poor mankind so fearful of his fate : Death of itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where." Such, or nearly such, must have been the reflections of the most serious among the heathen... | |
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DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where. 
