The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.9,'Of  Atheism'.

'Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch, and tea Are all the human frame requires†' With that the wretched child expires.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the L pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms103:13^14.

But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may loose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire. Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza137.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Love'.

Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heav'nly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb!

-Cowper,William
  Olney Hymns,'Walking with God'.

We must however acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities†still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

-Darwin, Charles Robert
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, ch.21.

He ate and drank the precious Words, His Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1883  Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published1890).

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  Of the final moments of the1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Despite what even manyartists appear to believe, art is not and should not be merelya skill. It should actually be completelyand utterly the language of our feelings, our frame of mind; indeed, even of our devotion and our prayers.

-Friedrich, Caspar David
Quoted in Caspar David Friedrich1774^1840, Tate Gallery (1972).

He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.76^84.

Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of Being slow. Be near me when the sensuous frame Is racked with pains that conquer trust; And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 50, l.1^8.

I saw the flaring atom-streams And torrents of her myriad universe, Ruining along the illimitable inane Fly on to clash together again, and make Another and another frame of things For ever.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.38^40.

What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light! He lookedö Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him:öFar and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces he could read Unutterable love.

-Wordsworth,William
  'The Excursion', bk.1, l.198^205.