 Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer, nor purifying form Of penitence, nor outward look, nor fast, Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell,...  Manfred: A Dramatic Poem - Sida 59efter George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 80 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 350 sidor
...love would still be beautiful, Happy and giving happiness. Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer, nor purifying form Of penitence,...despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, liut all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven — can exorcise From out the unbounded... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sidor
...echoes back the awful word. Man. Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer, Dor purifying form Of penitence, nor outward look, nor...all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven—can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit the quick sense Of its own sins, wrongs, sufferance,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 sidor
...humbleness 65 His servant echoes back the awful word. MANFRED: Old man! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer - nor purifying form Of penitence...nor fast Nor agony - nor, greater than all these, 70 The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in... | |
 | Erika Fischer-Lichte - 2002 - 410 sidor
...(III, 1,53-4): there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer . . . The innate tortures ofthat deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of...all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven ... there is no future pang Can deal that iustice on the self-condemn'd He deals on bis own soul. (1П,1,66-7,70-3,76-8... | |
 | Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 sidor
...local Abbot's efforts at an eleventhhour conversion, Manfred grounds his own claim to autonomy on 138 The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is...without the fear of hell But all in all sufficient of itself Would make a hell of heaven (Manfred, 1n.i.70-3) 'Back to thy hell!', Manfred commands the... | |
 | 1869 - 960 sidor
...the old Abbot, who seeks to bring him to repentance : — " Old man, there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer, nor purifying form Of penitence,...itself. Would make a hell of heaven, can exorcise From cut the unbounded >pirit the quick sense Of its own sins, wrongs, sufferance, and revenge Upon itself;... | |
 | 1835 - 782 sidor
...bright!— CONSCIENCE. There is no power in holy men, Nor charm in pray'r — nor purifying form Oi penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor...Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all m all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven — can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit,... | |
 | Alvah Hovey - 1889 - 338 sidor
...the mind Remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoomed for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, The innate tortures of that deep despair Which is...without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient in itself, Would make a hell of heaven — can exorcise From out the unbounded soul the quick sense... | |
 | Manfred Weidhorn - 2006 - 441 sidor
...has to come to terms with himself and not with any external agency: There is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer — nor purifying form Of penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor agony. . . . There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemned He deals on his own soul... | |
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