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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? "
The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 316
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...terrors, must embitter every enjoyment oflife, and cloud the desponding brow with comfortless despair — For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? Par. Ix>st, B 2, v 146 &c. To such representations, however, just echoes as they may be of the natural...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...ac Dr. 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...womb of uncreated night. Devoid of sense and motion V It will be the concern of every wise man, therefore, to tak* warning in time, to be cautious how...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...exasperate The Almighty 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...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, i Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows,...
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...terrors, must embitter every enjoyment of life, and cloud the desponding brow with comfortless despair — For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed Tip and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? Par. Lost, B 2, v 146...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...this intellectual being, I 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 ? and who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever : how he can Is...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...exasperate Th1 almighty Victor to spend all his rage, And that must end us ; that must be ow cure, 14* To be no more: sad cure! for who would lose, Though...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, sw allow 'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreattd night. 150 Devoid of sense and motion ? and who...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...rage, And that must end us \ that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad fate ! For who would los«, Though full of pain, this intellectual being. Those...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wkle womb of uncreated night, -Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows,...
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The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 7

1816 - 586 pages
...Milton puts into the mouth of the fallen angel: — " And that must end us, that must be dur cure, " To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, " Though full of p:iiu, this intellectual being, " Those thoughts that wander through eternity, " To perish rather,...
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Fragments of essays [by C. Leigh].

Chandos Leigh (1st baron.) - 1816 - 124 pages
...more pleasing than the dreadful contemplation of the annihilation of the soul ? To be swallowed up " in the wide womb of uncreated night, devoid of sense and motion ?" If I err, too, in whose company do I err? — in the company of the greatest modern philosophers,...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 5

1823 - 626 pages
..." — That must end us, that must be oar care. To be no more. Sad care' for who would lose, Tboagh 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, Devoid of sense and motion?" BOOK II. LINE...
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