To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion? Notes and Queries - Page 2331901Full view - About this book
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 being, Those...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, 1 50 Devoid of sense and motion ? And who... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...more. Sad cure, for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual heing, Those thoughts than wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womh of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion; and who knows*. Let this he good, whether our... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...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 being, Those...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, 150 Devoid of sense and motion ? and... | |
| David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...JOHNSON justly observes. " That must be our cure, " To be no more. Sad cure ! For who would lose • " this intellectual being, " Those 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 ?" F '2 It... | |
| 1804 - 452 pages
...though Milton's fobuster mind ascribes it to tht fallen and depraved Archangel. _. " Who would lose " Though full of pain, this intellectual being, " Those...up and lost " In the wide womb of uncreated night, k Devoid of sense or motion." • '" Tne corrupt deputy scaled." Dr. Johnson's explanation of " to... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...rage, And that must end us, that must be our cure, 145 To be no mpre ; sad cure ; for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, 1 50 Devoid of sense and motion? and who... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...spirit cannot contemplate annihilation without horrour : To be no more ; sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, »*...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? In the fourth book, the poet enters upon the dispute respecting the sensation... | |
| 1809 - 878 pages
...more i sad cure ! fur who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those tlio'.ights that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion .' In the fourth book, the poet enters upon the dispute respecting the sensation... | |
| David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...easy," as Johnson observes, "That must be our curaTo be no more. Sad cure ! For who vv'mld lose iiii this intellectual being, Those 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 :'" It will be... | |
| Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...every enjoyment oflife, and cloud the desponding brow with comfortless despair — For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? Par. Ix>st, B 2, v 146 &c. To such representations, however, just echoes... | |
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