 | John Milton - 1853 - 376 pages
...redound, On me, as on their natural center, light 740 Heavy, though in their place. 0 fleeting joys Of paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! Did I...solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place 745 In this delicious garden ? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, it were but right And equal to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1853 - 564 pages
...anguish of his heart he expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked existence : 1 Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...or here place In this delicious garden ? As my will Ooncurr'd not to my being, 'twere but right And equal to reduce mo to my dust, Desirous to resign,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 548 pages
...expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked existence. Did I request thee, Maker, from the clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness...delicious garden? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, 'twere but right And equal to reduce me to my dust, Desirous to resign, and render back All I receiv'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...vnU. \2rno. From Slackwood"s Edinburgh Magazine, March, 1818.] " Did I request thee, Maker, from rcy clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From Darkness to promote me ? " Paradise Lost. THIS is a novel, or more properly a romantic fiction, of a nature so peculiar, that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...heart he expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked existence. Did I request thce. Maker, from my clay To mould me man, did I solicit...delicious garden ? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, 'twere but right And equal to reduce me to my dust, Desirous to resign, and render back All I received... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pages
...the language of his heart he expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked existence. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...promote me, or here place In this delicious garden f As my will Concurr'd not to my being, 'twere but right And equal to reduce me to my dust, Desirous... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 pages
...Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. This is followed by a quotation from Milton's "Paradise Lost": Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? In his 1819 preface to "Prometheus Unbound," Percy Shelley would collocate the same two texts: The... | |
 | John Martin Evans - 1996 - 220 pages
...been kidnapped by a "spirit" and forced to work against his will on God's plantation: Did I sollicite thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious Garden? As my Will Concurd not to my being, it were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust, Desirous to resigne,... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - 1997 - 324 pages
...supplication to his Creator" in Paradise Last includes the lines used as an epigraph to Frankenstein: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? 1 2 The Maker's response to this protest is a determination to redeem mankind by sacrificing Himself.... | |
 | Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, Laura Westra - 1997 - 494 pages
...statement of her view comes on the title page of the book, a quotation from Milton's Paradise Lost: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — Suggested in these words is, it seems to me, the issue truly at stake in the whole of Frankenstein:... | |
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