| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 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, Devoid of sense and... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...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 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, 150 Devoid of sense and motion ? And who... | |
| Archibald Bell - Essays - 1835 - 456 pages
...another great poet," rejoined I, " tells us that existence is desirable, even though in pain : For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion. " Why, sir," said Mr Acid, "this only proves what exceeding foolish things... | |
| Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 pages
...another great poet," rejoined I, " tells us that existence is desirable, even though in pain : For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion. " Why, sir," said Mr Acid, " this only proves what exceeding foolish things... | |
| Presbyterians - 1835 - 524 pages
...his rage upon them— " And that must end us ; that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad care ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" These sentiments may, perhaps, appear so horrible to us from the difference... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 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,... | |
| Religion - 1836 - 428 pages
...To benemore : — sad cure ! For who tetnUd lose, Though full of pain, Otis intellectual being, Thou thoughts that wander through eternity ! To perish...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion V Byron, in one of his gloomy moods, agrees with Moloch : " Connt o'er the... | |
| Maxims - 1836 - 140 pages
...drinking. 236. The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 239. Who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual...being, those thoughts that wander through eternity ? 240. Others apart, sat on a hill retired, in thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, of providence,... | |
| Christian biography - 1836 - 432 pages
...woutd lose, Though. full of pain, this inteltectual being, Those thoughts that wander through etenuty! To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion V Byron, in one of his gloomy moods, agrees with Moloch : " Count o'er the... | |
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