| Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 360 pages
...lo»c, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thought! that wander through eternity I To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" Byron, in one of his gloomy moods, agrees with Moloch : " Count o'er... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...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, 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? and who knows,... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...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 , 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 ? and who knows,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...to spend all his rage, And that must end »s ; that must be our cure, 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? and who knows,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...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, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, 30 To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and... | |
| Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 590 pages
...those resources for any rational enjoyment which they were capable of affording. Then Who would lore, Though full of pain, this intellectual being— Those...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? The sister arts of music and poetry were no doubt among the first, if... | |
| Jones Very - 1839 - 202 pages
...prayed, we too might exclaim " For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, These thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?" This activity of mind in Shakspeare, to which the theatre perhaps in some... | |
| William Davis (of Hastings.) - 1839 - 224 pages
...fallen spirits * as preferring existence, though in torment, to annihilation ; " for who," says he, " 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?" If salvation,... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...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, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, 30 To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Duvoid of sense and... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...spend all his rage, And that must end us; that must bo our cure. 36 37 To be no more. Sad cure ! for racted strong, in swallow'd up and lost In the wide \vuinb of uncreated night. Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows,... | |
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