 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
 | Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 pages
...rejoined I, " tells us that existence is desirable, even though in pain : 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. " Why, sir,"... | |
 | Archibald Bell - Essays - 1835 - 456 pages
...rejoined I, " tells us that existence is desirable, even though in pain : 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. " Why, sir,"... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1835 - 524 pages
...And that must end us ; that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad care ! 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 ?" These sentiments... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...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, — To perish rather,- swallowed up and lost In the wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? — And who... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 360 pages
...this intellectual being, Those thought! that wander through eternity I To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" Byron, in one of his gloomy moods, agrees with Moloch : " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen,... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...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 1 and who knows, Let this he good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever ? how he can, Is... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836 - 432 pages
...pain, this inteltectual being, Those thoughts that wander through etenuty! To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion V Byron, in one of his gloomy moods, agrees with Moloch : " Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 428 pages
...pain, Otis intellectual being, Thou thoughts that wander through eternity ! To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion V Byron, in one of his gloomy moods, agrees with Moloch : " Connt o'er the joys thine hours have seen... | |
 | Maxims - 1836 - 140 pages
...own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 239. Who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity ? 240. Others apart, sat on a hill retired, in thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high, of providence,... | |
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