 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 316edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...almighty victor to spend all his rage. And that must end us ; that must be our cure, PARADISE LOST. 37 K K L 8&H J"K L K K K K K K swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion i And who knows,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...this intellectual being, T:n*t. thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd ? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever I how he can, Is... | |
 | 1865 - 820 pages
...exasperate Th' 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...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... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...Divine" - are seconded, but far more eloquently, by Belial, in an infernal version of Hamlet's soliloquy: 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, Devoid of sense and motion? ... (II. 146-51)... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...masculinist or any other. The question is a perennial one, and it is posed by Belial when he asks, "who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual...that wander through Eternity, / To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost?" (PL 11.146-9). One answer is that Milton would, at least at those times when... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...of sickness and old age lose much of their desire to live would cling to life with a firmer grasp. To be no more, sad cure, for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being. These thoughts that wander through eternity.1 Who would lose the common consciousness to be rid of... | |
 | George Frost Kennan - 1994 - 276 pages
...Eleven: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 232 Epilogue 251 Index 261 Foreword . . . sad cure, for who would loose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? — John Milton, Paradise Lost I approached the writing of this book with much hesitation. I could... | |
 | Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 pages
...Belial to demolish. Belial, on his part, sounds better as he defends the life of the mind and asks, 'who would lose, | Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through Eternity' (n. 146—48). 20 But as the narrator points out, these are words only 'cloth'd in reason's garb' (n.... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 pages
...their capacities, sexual and otherwise. In Belial's sexual image, the devils might become "swallow'd up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night / Devoid of sense and motion" (2.149-51). Therefore, Belial counsels "peaceful sloth, / Not peace" (2.227-28); and he is seconded... | |
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