...baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair ; we must exasperate The almighty victor to spend all his rage, And that must end us...that wander through eternity, — To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? — And who...

...after death, however slight and unsatisfactory may be the evidence by which that idea is supported.* " that must be our cure To be no more ? sad cure ; for...lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, In the third place, the idea of death is attended by a pain of inferiority of another kind, a pain...

...must be the terrors of that punishment wbieh shall really curse the circumstance of a man's birth ! "Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night ! " There is a pain, says Christ, for avoiding...

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...damned are often represented as seeking, and most ardently pray.i ing, to be annihilated. E3DLESS " Sad cure ! for who would lose Though full of pain,...thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ?" All agree...

...victor—to 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,...that wander through eternity,— To perish rather, swallowed up, and lost, In the wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense, and motion?—And who...

...to spend all his rage, And that must end us; tíiat — must be our cure, — To be no more. — Sod cure ! — for who would lose, Though full of pain,...thoughts, that wander through eternity,— To perish rallier, swallowed up, and lost, In the wide tomb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense, and motion ?—...

...drift on to the tomb — your last haven, and even for such a port you must wish ; Perhaps he erred, " For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...— Those thoughts that wander through eternity." and laughed a great deal, blasphemed oftener than was correct, and maintained the recollection of their...

...must exasperau The almighty victor — to spend all his rage, And thai must end us; tliai — must b^ our cure, — To be no more. — Sad cure!— for who would lose, Though full of pain, thin intellectual being, Those thought*, that wander through eternity,— To perish rather, swallowed...

...it miserable ; but the man himself, who owns the precious gift, blasphemes when he abuses it. Oh ! who would lose Though full of pain, this intellectual...being. Those thoughts that wander through eternity? . . . On looking back upon a life of ceaseless toil, the man of genius will -i•i'. certain dark spots...