...loves to gaze, is he to be trodden into dust, and scattered to the winds ? "Who would lose, Though fall of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" Here, then, Christianity comes in to the aid of the humble enquirer :...

...reasonable man can look upon it with complacency ?" " That must be our cure, To be no more : sad cure ! for who 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." Which horn...

...melodiously. Genius a fatal gift? Ah, no! it is the greatest and the happiest of endowments. " Oh ! who would lose Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?" Conceive the intense delight genius must feel when creajing forms of everlasting beauty? Who shall...

...above us — At our first birth the wreath of love was woven, With sparkling stars for flowers." " Oh ! who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity." " Go up stairs, my boy, and see if your mamma is ready to come down to breakfast — and give my love...

...rage, And that must end us ; that must be our cure, 146 To be no more. Sad cure ! for who would low, 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, I5C Devoid of sense and motion ;' And who...

...embattled seraphim speak of " sense" and " motion" as the «ssence of even celestial existence : — Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Deroid of sense and motion ! GEO. NÏILSOK. Glasgow. 'JULIOS C.E3AR,' III. i. — In the edition of...

...seems disposed to answer the question in the negative. We will commend to him the words of Milton :— Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night ? The speaker is Belial, but the thought is the poet's. Mrs. Marshall gives a good account of Gerhart...

...spend all his rage, And that must end as ; that must be our cure, 145 To be no more. ( Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...thoughts that wander through eternity To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wido womb of uncreated night, 15C Devoid of sense and motion ?) And who...

...with all-absorbing solicitude ; aa something immeasurably better than mere non-existence : • for who would lose. Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander throiu-h eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night?" If...

...which he and his companions were placed. Belial recoils from it with horror, and sublimely asks, • who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that zander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up niij lost In the wide womb of uncreated night,...