| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 страници
...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, this intellectual...perish rather, swallowed up, and lost, In the wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense, and motion?—And who knows (Let this be good) whether our... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 страници
...mouth of a fallen spirit: " For who would lose Though full of pain. this intellectual being, These thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather,...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" Unless the fixed direction of universal nature is towards the unreal, Immortality is the destiny... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Sawyer - 1845 - 264 страници
...annihilated. " Sad cure! for who would lose Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those ihoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" All agree in representing the torments of hell as death; "a death without death, an end without... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 страници
...that must end us; that — mutt b* our cure,— To be no more. — Sod cure ! — for who would lo*e, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...eternity, — To perish rather, swallowed up, and lost, In die wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense, and motion?— And who knows (Let this DC good)... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 страници
...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, this intellectual...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? ... (II. 146-51)... | |
| 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...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 those times when... | |
| 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...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? — John Milton, Paradise Lost I approached the writing of this book with much hesitation. I could... | |
| 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.... | |
| Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 страници
...their capacities, sexual and otherwise. In Belial's sexual image, the devils might become "swallow'd up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night / Devoid of sense and motion" (2.149-51). Therefore, Belial counsels "peaceful sloth, / Not peace" (2.227-28); and he is seconded... | |
| 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...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 finds himself... | |
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