 | 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 fuffer... | |
 | 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 lodge me,... | |
 | 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...King : And with luxuriant pomp my death they bring. . , To him, NOURMAHAL. Nour. I thought, before you drewyour latest breath, To smooth your passage,... | |
 | 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 scattered... | |
 | 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 scattered... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1811 - 236 pages
...distribution of the Stoics. See B. iv. §. 21. 11. The text is again corrupted, and the sense uncertain. 12. " Death in itself is nothing; but we fear " To be, we know not what, we know not ufare." Drvdeu. 13. He seems to have transcribed these several sentences into his me^ morandum-book.... | |
 | John Mason - Aplolgetics - 1816 - 298 pages
...of a future state, Is that which makes mankind to dread their fate : Dying is nothing; but 'tis this we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.' Xow, self-knowledge, in a good degree, removes this uncertainty : for, as the word of God hath revealed... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
