| John Milton - 1855 - 564 páginas
...mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair : We must exasperate The almighty Victor to spend all his...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows,... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 202 páginas
...exasperate Th' Almighty Victor to spend all his rage, And that must end us ; that must be our cure, 145 To be no more : sad cure ! for who would lose, Though...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost , i jecture," then, Belial means to say, — to in his mind when he wrote the... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 páginas
...preference of continued existence, even in despair and pain, rather than the cure by annihilation. " And that must end us; that must be our cure, To be...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity f" But the absence of God from the soul, and an eternal banishment from Him, could not be compatible... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair: we must exasperate The almighty Victor to spend all his...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows.... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 470 páginas
...off the baser fire. Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair. We must exasperate Th' Almighty victor to spend all his rage, And that must...cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Tli. ni;1 h full of pain, Ibis intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To... | |
| 1909 - 502 páginas
...mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair : we must exasperate The Almighty Victor to spend all his...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows,... | |
| Elmer Edgar Stoll - 1967 - 292 páginas
...his irony and raillery, his exquisite love of life and pleasure, would win any audience — but this. That must be our cure To be no more; sad cure; for...lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, 7 See below, p. 944. Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 páginas
...Divine" - are 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...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 páginas
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair: we must exasperate Th' Almighty Victor to spend all his rage; And that must...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, 150 Devoid of sense and motion? And who... | |
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