 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...spend all his rage, 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...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? — But will he, Arguing. So wise, let loose at once his utmost ire, Belike... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 816 pages
...biographers, the least miserable day of an author's life is generally the last. "... Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perisl1 rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?"... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...more eloquently, by Belial, in an infernal version of Hamlet's soliloquy: 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? ... (II. 146-51)... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...masculinist or any other. The question is a perennial one, and it is posed by Belial when he asks, "who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual...that wander through Eternity, / To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost?" (PL 11.146-9). One answer is that Milton would, at least at those times when... | |
 | George Frost Kennan - 1994 - 276 pages
...Eleven: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 232 Epilogue 251 Index 261 Foreword . . . sad cure, for who would loose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? — John Milton, Paradise Lost I approached the writing of this book with... | |
 | Cedric Clive Brown - 1993 - 318 pages
...Belial to demolish. Belial, on his part, sounds better as he defends the life of the mind and asks, 'who would lose, | Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through Eternity' (n. 146—48). 20 But as the narrator points out, these are words only 'cloth'd in reason's garb' (n.... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 pages
...remarkable for nothing, is not to be at all; and less eligible than to be remarkably a blockhead. — 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. Milton. He that upon trial finds himself... | |
 | George Hughes - 1997 - 274 pages
...In the dark void of night" has a plangency that surely derives from Belial in Paradise Lost Book II who would lose Though full of pain, this intellectual...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? (146-51) - but the strangeness and strength of Keats' thinking are his... | |
 | Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 - 284 pages
...range, / To walk the bounded, dull, tho' safer plain / Of moderate intellect." 3 Echoing Milton ("For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander though Eternity"), Seward implies that she is no writer of "moderate intellect" but a woman of genius... | |
 | Gershon Samuel, Jair C. Soares - 2000 - 599 pages
...Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wish womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion John Milton, Paradise Lost Book II, lines... | |
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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? 
