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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 301
by Nathan Drake - 1809 - 499 pages
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - 2011 - 340 pages
...violence round about The pendent world; . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. [Claudio — 3. 1 . 1 33 -47] Take, O take those Lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn . . . [Song—...
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Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal

Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 pages
...conviction rendered and no sentence imposed. The weariest and the most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. (3.1.129-32) Angelo, ever the proponent of law and order, sees the death penalty as a form of deterrence....
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Style: Essays on Renaissance and Restoration Literature and Culture in ...

Harriett Hawkins - 2005 - 308 pages
...lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; . . . The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death." (III.i.ll9-20;130-33) 8 Or, again, if Claudio is legally liable for the death penalty, then why not...
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Fundamental Rights and Democratic Governance: Essays in Caribbean Jurisprudence

Simeon C. R. McIntosh - 2005 - 356 pages
...of death row in Measure for Measure: The weariest and the most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.159 Claudio's expressed terror at being executed corresponds to a punishment being cruel and...
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Mystery of the Black Tower

John Palmer (Jun.) - 2005 - 208 pages
...Imagine howling! 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. SHAKESPEARE. ON perceiving the blood fast-flowing from Fitzallan's side, Leonard's anger dissolved,...
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The Voyage to Illyria: A New Study of Shakespeare

Kenneth Muir, Sean O'Loughlin - 2005 - 264 pages
...thought, Imagine howling, 'tis too horrible. The weariest, and most loathed worldly life That Age, Ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a Paradise To what we feare of death. This speech is the more impressive because it follows the superb one by the Duke, which,...
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Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

Keith Allan, Kate Burridge - 2006 - 254 pages
...thought Imagine howling - 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, III.i.118) Death is a fear-based taboo. There is fear of the loss...
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Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson - 2006 - 714 pages
...thought Imagines howling: 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loaded worldly life, That pain, age, penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.I find, by one of thy three letters, that my beloved had some account from Hickman of my interview...
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Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare

John Albert Murley, Sean D. Sutton - 2006 - 280 pages
...extreme: "The weariest and most loathed worldly life / That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment/Can lay on nature is a paradise / To what we fear of death" (III.i.128-131, 117-126).88 The truth the Duke actually wants to convey lies somewhere in between,...
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Looking for Hamlet

Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 pages
...Imagine howling — 'tis too horrible! OO The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. Hamlet, in contrast to the genuinely terrified Claudio of Measure for Measure, commands a unique authority...
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