...prayed, we too might exclaim " For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, These thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?" This activity of mind in Shakspeare, to which the theatre perhaps in some measure gave a direction,...

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...fallen spirits * as preferring existence, though in torment, to annihilation ; " for who," says he, " 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?" If salvation,...

...—not for the mere body, which, in the doom the conquered angels dreaded, shall perish— " swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion "— but for the divine ethereal spirit that "cannot cease to be." And if the element of their contrivances...

...not for the mere body, which, in the doom the conquered angels dreaded, shall perish — " swallow'd up and lost in the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion " — but for the divine ethereal spirit that "cannot cease to be." And if the element of their contrivances...

...creation could exist for a moment : but all nature, all thought and being must dissolve and perish, " Swallowed up and lost, In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion." The existence of a God, or first cause and governor of all things, is acknowledged by almost all intelligent...

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...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,...To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? — And who knows (Let this be good) whether...