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, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion? Early Letters - Страница 180по Thomas CarlyleОграничен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John Milton - 1850 - 302 страници
...to spend all his rage, And that must end us ; that must be our cure, 145 To be no more 1 Sad cure i 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, 150 Devoid of sense and motion... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Ceylon Branch, Colombo - 1926 - 1200 страници
...will unchecked, not to end action but to work divinely." Brave words these, and comforting again, " for who would lose Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity ? " But what would Orthodoxy say ? " Not easy is it to estimate what the recluse tradition has cost... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 страници
...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,...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?... | |
| David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 страници
...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...Those thoughts that wander through Eternity, / To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost?" (PL 11.146-9). One answer is that Milton would, at least at... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 страници
...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... | |
| Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 страници
...Belial to demolish. Belial, on his part, sounds better as he defends the life of the mind and asks, 'who would lose, | Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through Eternity' (n. 146—48). 20 But as the narrator points out, these are words only 'cloth'd in reason's garb' (n.... | |
| George Frost Kennan - 1994 - 276 страници
...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?... | |
| Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 страници
...remarkable for nothing, is not to be at all; and less eligible than to be remarkably a blockhead. — 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. Milton. He that upon trial... | |
| George Hughes - 1997 - 274 страници
...In the dark void of night" has a plangency that surely derives from Belial in Paradise Lost Book II who would lose 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?... | |
| Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 - 284 страници
...that range, / To walk the bounded, dull, tho' safer plain / Of moderate intellect." 3 Echoing Milton ("For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander though Eternity"), Seward implies that she is no writer of "moderate intellect" but a woman of genius... | |
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