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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? "
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1889
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...must end us; that must be our cure, 145 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, 1 50 Devoid of sense and motion ? And who...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...more. Sad cure, for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual heing, Those thoughts than wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womh of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion; and who knows*. Let this he good, whether our...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...must end us, that must be our cure, 145 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 and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, 150 Devoid of sense and motion ? and...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...JOHNSON justly observes. " That must be our cure, " To be no more. Sad cure ! For who would lose • " 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 ?" F '2 It...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures ..., Volume 17

Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...Milton's robuster mind ascribes it to tht fallen and depraved Archangel. " Who would lose " Though full of pain, this intellectual being, " Those thoughts...up and lost " In the wide womb of uncreated night, u Devoid of sense or motion:" -" The corrupt deputy scaled*" Dr. Johnson's explanation of " to scale"...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...must end us, that must be our cure, 145 To be no mpre ; 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, 1 50 Devoid of sense and motion? and who...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 7

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...contemplate annihilation without horrour : To be no more ; sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, »* Those thoughts...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? In the fourth book, the poet enters upon the dispute respecting the sensation...
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The Monthly anthology, and Boston review, Volumes 6-7

1809 - 878 pages
...more i sad cure ! fur who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those tlio'.ights that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion .' In the fourth book, the poet enters upon the dispute respecting the sensation...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...easy," as Johnson observes, "That must be our curaTo be no more. Sad cure ! For who vv'mld lose iiii 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 :'" It will be...
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...oflife, and cloud the desponding brow with comfortless despair — For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that...swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? Par. Ix>st, B 2, v 146 &c. To such representations, however, just echoes...
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