 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...this intellectual being, Those thoughts that 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 &c. To sach representations, however, just echoes as they may be of the natural... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1823 - 626 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?" BOOK II. LINE 145—151. On hearing these lines, a new world 3D seemed to open itself to his imagination... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...To be no more. Sad fate ! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being1, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather....womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows, Ltt this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever ! How he can, Is... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd remit To life obscur'd, which were a fair dismission, But throw's! them low And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever ? how he can, Is doubtful... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...this intellectual being, Those thoughts -hat wander through eternity,. To perish railur, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who know."; Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever ? How he can, Is... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1826 - 520 pages
...' 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,...womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? ' Though we are aware, that we have distorted this passage from its intended application, yet it... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 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... | |
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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? 
