 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Mason - 1794 - 282 pàgines
...nothing ; but 'tis this'we fear, " To be we know not what, we know net ' "where." Now, felf-knowledge in a good degree removes this uncertainty : for as...word of God hath revealed the certainty of a future ftate of happinefs, which good men fhall enter upon after death, and plainly defcribed the requifite... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pàgines
...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 lodge... | |
 | John Mason - 1809 - 232 pàgines
...dying.* " Distrust and darkness 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 inhere." Now self knowledge in a good degree, dissipates this gloom, and removes this dreadful * It... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pàgines
...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 - 1809 - 520 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Mason - 1816 - 298 pàgines
...dying. * Distrust and darkness 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... | |
 | John Mason - 1824 - 340 pàgines
...dying. ' Distrust and darkness of a future state, Is that which makes mankind to dread their fate : Dying is nothing ; but 'tis this we fear, To be we...God hath revealed the certainty of a future state of happiness,which good men shall enter upon after death, and plainly described the requisite qualifications... | |
 | John Mason - 1824 - 230 pàgines
...darkness of a futare state, Is that which makes mankind to dread their fate : Dying is nothing ; bat 'tis this we fear, To be we know not what, — we...not where." Now Self-knowledge, in a good degree, dissipates this gloom, and removes this dreadful doubt ; for, as the word of God hath revealed the... | |
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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. 
