 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity To perish rather, swallowed up and lost. In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of cense and motion 1 '"'• How fully haut thou satisfied me, pure Intelligence of heaven, angel ! Id.... | |
 | Benjamin Parsons (of Pensacola.) - 1840 - 408 pages
...could exist for a moment : but all nature, all thought and being must dissolve and perish, " Swallowed up and lost, In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion." The existence of a God, or first cause and governor of all things, is acknowledged by almost all intelligent... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...almighty Victor to spend all his rage, " And that must end us; — that must be our cure, " To be no more. Sad cure ! for who would lose, " Though full of pain,...womb of uncreated night, " Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows, — " Let this be good,— whether our angry foe " Can give it, or will ever? How... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...almighty victor to spend all his rage, And that must end us; that must bo our cure. 36 37 To be no more. asure, art. Attracted strong, in \vuinb of uncreated night. Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Victor to spend all his rage, 145 " And that must end us ; — that must he our cure, " To he no more. Sad cure ! for who would lose, " Though full of pain, this intellectual heing, " Those thoughts that wander through eternity, " To perish rather; swallow'd up and lost 150... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...Almighty Victor to spend all his rage, And that must end us ; that must be our cure— To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain,...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever ? How he can, Is... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...seconded, but far more eloquently, by Belial, in an infernal version of Hamlet's soliloquy: To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though full of pain,...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? ... (II. 146-51) Given the fundamental tenet of angelology, the invulnerability and immortality of... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...masculinist or any other. The question is a perennial one, and it is posed by Belial when he asks, "who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual...Eternity, / To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost?" (PL 11.146-9). One answer is that Milton would, at least at those times when he expresses a desire... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...and old age lose much of their desire to live would cling to life with a firmer grasp. To be no more, sad cure, for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being. These thoughts that wander through eternity.1 Who would lose the common consciousness to be rid of... | |
 | George Frost Kennan - 1994 - 276 pages
...Eleven: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 232 Epilogue 251 Index 261 Foreword . . . sad cure, for who would loose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...thoughts that wander through Eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? — John Milton,... | |
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To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? 
