 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 sidor
...did not absolutely despair, so true it is that "Hope springs eternal in the human breast:" • 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 tomb of uncreated night?" I clung to the forlorn hope that I might... | |
 | 1825 - 498 sidor
...proudest spirit ; and life, upon almost any terms, may appear preferable to immediate dissolution. - " For who would lose "Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, " Those thoughts that wander through eternity ?" But, for objects that are viewed in prospective distance, we have different and more reasoning eyes... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 sidor
...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, iso Devoid of sense and motion ? and who... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 sidor
...Yictor 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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1834 - 418 sidor
...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, Devoid of sense and motion ?" BOOK II. LINE I45—I5I. The vast subjects alluded to in these lines, at once riveted... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 sidor
...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...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 wise... | |
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 sidor
...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...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 wise men... | |
 | 1835 - 524 sidor
...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...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 in... | |
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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? 
