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" Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd... "
The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 201
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence about The pendant world ; or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and uncertain thoughts Imagine...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 934 pages
...delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown...with restless violence round about The pendent world, or to be worse than worst Of those, that lawless and uncertain thoughts Imagine howling ! 'Tis too...
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The Missionary Memorial: A Literary and Religious Souvenir ...

1846 - 404 pages
...unless I can feel it, half my enjoyment is wanting. Claudio's fear of death, in Measure for Measure, " to be imprisoned in the viewless winds, and blown...restless violence round about the pendent world," instead of a state to dread, always seemed a very delightful condition. The fate of the " Ancient Mariner,"...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribb'd ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown...with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling — 'tis too...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...the dilated spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown...with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling - 'tis too horrible!...
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Duologues for All Accents and Ages

Eamonn Jones, Jean Marlow - 2002 - 180 pages
...spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling - 'tis too horrible....
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On Measure for Measure: An Essay in Criticism of Shakespeare's Drama

Lawrence J. Ross - 1997 - 194 pages
...urgent reach of its consciousness, the grandeur and uncertainty of its imaginings. To be imprison'd in the viewless winds And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: (123-25) There is nothing like that elsewhere in the whole play. The speech makes his consequent plea...
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Shakespeare's Other Lives: An Anthology of Fictional Depictions of the Bard

Maurice O'Sullivan - 1997 - 240 pages
...spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling:...
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Urwind

Bo Carpelan - 1998 - 210 pages
...motionless in the afternoon, the sun sets with a lonely brilliance, the green leaves have stopped changing. To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, and blown with restless violence round about the pendant world! So: I am arranging a programme for my future. More work. Greater precision. Greater...
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Shakespearean Power and Punishment: A Volume of Essays

Gillian Murray Kendall - 1998 - 232 pages
...his body is doomed "To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot," then that his spirit may "be imprison'd in the viewless winds / And blown with restless violence round about / The pendent world," hardly encourages the happy surrender of the worldly self to dispersal: The weariest and most loathed...
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