 Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.  History of English Literature - Page 451by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of Heatfn: What matter where, if I be elill Ihe same, And what I should be. all but less than he Whom thunder Imih made greater? Here, at tout We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ;... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - Highlands (Scotland) - 1845 - 310 pages
...Milton makes his Satanic Majesty say, on exploring his dark dominions : — " Receive thy new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time." Now, after this diabolical comparison I must tell you of a softer and sweeter one. Do you know I have... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 362 pages
...Hail, horrors, bar! ! Infernal world, and thou, profoundegt hell, 7- t V Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a beaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if 1 be still the same 1... | |
 | Frederick ROWTON - Debates and debating - 1846 - 366 pages
...that 'tis " Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." We are told by him that into hell • he brings A mind not to be changed by place or time : The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." I really doubt the morality of this. The picture... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1846 - 350 pages
...horrors, hail ! Infernal world, and thou, profoundeet hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who bringt A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaveu. What matter where, if 1 be still the same ?... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...* * * Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal world ! and thou, profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor ! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time." Solomon commenced a course of self-indulgence,for the avowed purpose of determining whether in its... | |
 | 1847 - 446 pages
...openly consoles himself with the thought — ' What matter where, if I be still the same, And Kbit I should be, all but less than He Whom thunder hath made greater T ' BV is thus filled with the assurance that in no peer of hell \v he to dread a rival. He next seeks... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...! Hail horrors ! hail, 250 Infernal world ! And thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ! one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time : The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 255 What matter where, if I be still the same,... | |
 | Gabriel GOODFELLOW (pseud.) - 1849 - 298 pages
...ever dwells! Hail horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or...Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if / be ttill the tame, And what I should be, ALL but less than he Whom THUNDER HATH MADE GREATER ? Here... | |
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