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" The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour there... "
The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 128
by John Blair Linn - 1802 - 191 pages
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The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives

Amélie Rorty - 2001 - 376 pages
...dreadful? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbor there, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult...gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despair. Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch- Angel, this the seat That we...
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The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and ...

Armand M. Nicholi - 2002 - 306 pages
...work, Milton's Paradise Lost, not using the words of Adam, Eve, or God but the devil: Let us consult What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair. Throughout Freud's writings he refers often to the devil, sometimes as a figure of speech, sometimes...
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Beyond Madness: Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis

Joseph H. Berke - 2002 - 292 pages
...not understood her despair, and that we had not understood that she believed no-one could help her. 'What reinforcement we may gain from hope If not, what resolution from despair.' (John Milton) We had failed to achieve a balance, leaving Brenda feeling alone with this unbearable...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbor there, 185 And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how...Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest Mate With Head up-lift above...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...can harbour there, And reassembling our afflicted powers,0 Consult how we may henceforth most offend0 Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this...calamity. What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above...
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The Satanic Epic

Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...of which the narrator had covertly accused him. We should, he says, when we get over there, consult What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despare. (PL 1.190-91) Satan thus accepts openly — and it was in this way that a Shelley read the...
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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War

Retort (Organization : San Francisco, Calif.), Iain A. Boal - 2005 - 232 pages
...# 1 8470) under torture by US forces. Abu Ghraib prison, 2003. In memory of Michael Rogin 1937-2001 And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how...we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despare. Paradise Lost, Book 1 CONTENTS PREFACE xi INTRODUCTION I 1 THE STATE, THE SPECTACLE, AND SEPTEMBER...
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Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne

Frank Kermode - 2005 - 326 pages
...let us tend, From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest, if any rest can harbour (here, And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend 15 'Rhetoric and Poems: Alexander Pope', in English Institute Essays 1948 (1949); reprinted in The...
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Christian Belief: A Short History for Today

Gillian Rosemary Evans - 2006 - 244 pages
...spirits resolving to do as much harm to God's cause as they can: To do aught good never will be our task. Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair.6 'Offence' here is like the Latin scandalum; it means a stumbling block. Their objective is...
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Milton's Places of Hope: Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land

Mary C. Fenton - 2006 - 254 pages
...Warr / Irreconcileable." From this functional, motivational purpose, Satan next materializes hope: "What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, / If not what resolution from despare" (1.190-91). Satan identifies and equates hope with a source of military strength — "reinforcement"...
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