 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...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 ? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever ? how he can, Is... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - Bible - 1839 - 590 pages
...those resources for any rational enjoyment which they were capable of affording. Then Who would lore, Though full of pain, this intellectual being— Those...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? The sister arts of music and poetry were no doubt among the first, if they were not the very first,... | |
 | Jones Very - History - 1839 - 202 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Davis (of Hastings.) - 1839 - 224 pages
...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,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...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, Duvoid of sense and... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 358 pages
...—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... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Parsons (of Pensacola.) - God - 1840 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...spend all his rage, And that must end us; that must bo our cure. 36 37 To be no more. Sad cure ! for racted strong, in swallow'd up and lost In the wide \vuinb of uncreated night. Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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...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... | |
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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? 
