 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1900 - 580 pages
...we form to nothing. What, after all, is it to die ? 'T is less than to be born ; a lasting sleep j A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Memnon, in the ' Mad Lover's Tragedy,' reasoning upon his hopeless passion for the princess, argues... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - English literature - 1900 - 652 pages
...: — " Philaster. O, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Bellari/i. Yes, I do know, my lord. 'Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet...resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue ; 1 know besides It is but giving over of a game 1 92 On the whole, the drama during this age steadily... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 886 pages
...avousnous ... il faut oster le masque . . ." Thus earlier eyes than ours, less, it may be, intellectnalized races, had striven to deprive death of its mask of...who fear it. Ford's Calantha dies with her note of luidal triumph, the Duchess of Malfy in the utter fearlessness of her unshaken dignity, Come, violent... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 848 pages
...vein with equal mastery, is Bellario's unforgettable description of death:— Yes, I do know, my lord: 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep; A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Here follows the jewel of the play. It is Philaster's meditation in the forest, when he is desolated... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 420 pages
...without reason ? Phi. Oh, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Bell. Yes, I do know, my lord : 'Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ; A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Phi. But there are pains, false boy, For perjured souls : think but on these, and then Thy heart will... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 422 pages
...without reason ? Phi. Oh, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Bell. Yes, I do know, my lord : 'Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ; A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Phi. But there are pains, false boy, For perjured souls : think but on these, and then Thy heart will... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - English literature - 1903 - 374 pages
...thou dost not know what 'tis to die,' he urges ; and the answer is fine : ' Yes, I do know, my lord : Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ; A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost.' 2 1 A very convenient constructive principle for a dramatist who loves the violent, and cares nothing... | |
 | George Ansel Watrous - English drama - 1903 - 334 pages
...without reason ? Phi. Oh, but thou dost not know What 't is to die. Bel. Yes, I do know, my lord : 'T is less than to be born ; a lasting sleep ; A quiet resting...besides, It is but giving over of a game That must be lost.1 1 See other references to death by Beaumont and Fletcher, Valentinian, Act I., Scene 3, Act... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Authors, English - 1904 - 686 pages
...Thus without reason ? Phi. Oh, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Bell. Yes, I do know, my lord. 'Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Phi. But there are pains, false boy, For perjur'd souls ; think but on these, and then Thy heart will... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 710 pages
...Thus without reason ? Phi. Oh, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. Bell. Yes, I do know, my lord. Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet...It is but giving over of a game That must be lost. Phi. But there are pains, false boy, For perjur'd souls ; think but on these, and then Thy heart will... | |
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Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, , It is but giving over of a game That must be lost Phi. 
