 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 Dryden - 1808 - 436 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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.' Now, self-knowledge, in a good degree, removes this uncertainty : for, as the word of God hath revealed... | |
 | John Mason - 1824 - 230 sidor
...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 know not where." Now Self-knowledge, in a good degree, dissipates this gloom, and removes this dreadful doubt ; for, as... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 484 sidor
...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 ; and as... | |
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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. 
