 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, swallow'd up and lost , • In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? and...  The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ... - Page 7771823Full view - About this book
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 337 pages
...Yale University Press, 1969), 4:47. 48. Both extremes are encapsulated in Belial's continuing words, "Those thoughts that wander through Eternity / To...of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion?" Paradise Lost 2.148-51. The ongoing debate in Johnsonian circles on the topos of Johnson's fear of... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 204 pages
...fallen angels is preferable to their annihilation as conscious beings: "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?"'- In Augustine,... | |
 | Balfour Stewart, Peter Guthrie Tait - Religion - 2007 - 289 pages
...fate would be regarded as even worse than endless misery : Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though fall 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. So speaks Milton,... | |
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