 | John Milton - 1923 - 332 pagini
...How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep...no more Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 pagini
...I meet Mortality my sentence, and be Earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my Mothers lap ? there I should rest And sleep secure; his dreadful...more Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse To mee and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest... | |
 | Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos - 1925 - 392 pagini
...How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! there I should rest And sleep secure. Sleep and no sleep: peace and no peace. Must I live still? an agony pendant on the long chain of my... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 412 pagini
...sentence, and be Earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my Mothers lap? there I should resl And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse To mee and to my offering would torment me Pursues me slill, leasl all I cannot die, With cruel expeftation.... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pagini
...How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep...that pure breath of life, the Spirit of Man Which God inspired, cannot together perish With this corporeal clod. Then, in the grave, Or in some other dismal... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 pagini
...or rational faculty, or some action or affection belonging to those faculties" (CD 15:39). Also, . . that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man Which God inspir'd. . . . (PL 10. 784-85) Thus spirit as the breath of life is equated with "soul," which has the same... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagini
...How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap! There I should rest And sleep secure. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet How often are we to die before we go right off this stage? In... | |
 | David Rosen - 1993 - 260 pagini
...How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be Earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my Mother's lap! There I should rest And sleep secure; . . . Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die, Lest the pure breath of Life, the Spirit... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagini
...How gladly would 1 meet. Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down, H WALDO EMERSON (1 803-82). US essayist, poet. philosopher. T JOHN MILTON (1608-74J. English poet. Adam, in Paradise Lost, bk. 10. 83 Yet nightly pitch my moving... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pagini
...Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! There 1 should rest And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still... | |
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His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my... 
