 If it be a consummation of ones being, it is also an amendment and entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee finde nothing so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames. The things I know to be wicked, as to wrong or offend...  The Essayes - Page 382by Michel de Montaigne - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1893 - 428 pages
...summation of ones being, it is also an amendment and ' entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee finde nothing ' so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle...death, and leave you alive : ' The Gods onely see, whether you or I shall prosper best. ' And therefore, for my regarde, you shall dispose of it, as it... | |
 | Henry R. D. Anders, Heinrich R. D. Anders - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 352 pages
...[=aneantissement] of ones being, it is also an amendement and entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee flnde nothing so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames. (Florio, Bk. Ill, ch. 12, p. 627.) Here we have the same idea which we find in Hamlet's famous monologue,... | |
 | Grace Norton - 1908 - 258 pages
...consummation of one's being, it is also an amendment and entrance into a long and quiet night. We finde nothing so sweete in life as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe and without dreams.1 f The dread of something after death The undiscovered Countrey from whose Born No Traveller... | |
 | Alois Brandl - 1923 - 572 pages
...consummation of ones being, it is also an amendment and entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee finde nothing so sweete in life as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames.' The Essayes of M. Montaigne translated by J. Florio, ed. by H. Morley, London, Routledge (1885), S. 540.... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - Ethics - 1928 - 448 pages
...consummation of ones being, it is also an amendment and entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee finde nothing so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle...my death, and leave you alive : The Gods onely see, whether you or I shall prosper best. And therefore, for my regarde, you shall dispose of it, as it... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...consummation of ones being, it is also an amendment and entrance into a long and quiet life. Wee finde nothing so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames.64 The association is all the more plausible because the context also is suicide, and therefore... | |
 | Millicent Bell - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 316 pages
...consumation of one's being, it is also an amendement and entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee finde nothing so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames" — which Shakespeare must have read. The ambiguity that lingers in the word is the rub, however, of... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...consummation of one's being, it is also an ... entrance into a long and quiet night. We find nothing so sweet in life, as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames ' (Essayes, ll l, xii ; pp. 308-9). However, evidence for the influence of Montaigne is also found... | |
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