Lord Byron's Cain: A Mystery ; with Notes ; Wherein the Religion of the Bible is Considered, in Reference to Acknowledged Philosophy and ReasonWilliam Crofts, 1830 - 432 páginas |
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Abel Abel's Adah Adah's Adam Adam and Eve Adam's admitted advert Almighty angels animals appears art thou ascribed asks assertion atheistical attributes behold believe brother Cain's cause certainly character cherubim cherubs Cicero confessed considered creation creator death declares deemed deity deny divine doubt Earth effect Enceladus enquiry eternal evidence existence fact faith father favour fear feelings fruit God's happiness hath Heaven human immortality infinite Jehovah knowledge least less Lord Byron Lucifer Lucifer's Luciferian maker man's mankind Master of Spirits matter means mind misery mon language moral evil moral government nature Note object Old Testament omnipotent parents perhaps Plato pre-adamite question racter rational reason reply respect revelation scripture seems seen sense seraphs serpent shew shewn soul speaking suffering suppose tells Cain term thee thine things thought tion transgression tree true truth tyrannous wisdom word worship Zillah
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Página 182 - Will he In sooth return within an hour ? LUCIFER. He shall. With us acts are exempt from time, and we Can crowd eternity into an hour, Or stretch an hour into eternity: We breathe not by a mortal measurement — But that 's a mystery. Cain, come on with me. ADAH. Will he return
Página 126 - wrestle with him? I wrestled with the lion, when a boy, In play, till he ran roaring from my gripe. LUCIFER. It has no shape; but will absorb all things That bear the form of earth-born being. CAIN. I thought it was a being: who could do Such evil things to beings save a being
Página 399 - His! His pleasure ! what was his high pleasure in The fumes of scorching flesh and smoking blood, To the pain of the bleating mothers, which Still yearn for their dead offspring ? or the pangs Of the sad ignorant victims underneath Thy pious knife? Give way! this bloody record Shall not
Página 420 - CAIN. Why, all have left thee. And wherefore lingerest thou? Dost thou not fear To dwell with one who hath done this ? ADAH. I fear Nothing except to leave thee, much as I Shrink from the deed which leaves thee brotherless. I must not speak of this — it is between thee And the great God.
Página 422 - earth and heaven ! what thou now art, I know not! but if thou see'st what / am, I think thou wilt forgive him, whom his God Can ne'er forgive, nor his own soul.— Farewell! I must not, dare not, touch what I have made thee. I who sprung from the same womb with thee,
Página 415 - him from the face of earth, And from the face of God shall he be hid. A fugitive and vagabond on earth, 'T will come to pass that whoso findeth him Shall slay him. CAIN. Would they could ! but who are they Shall slay me ? Where are they on the lone earth As yet unpeopled
Página 289 - bough —the bird's voice The vesper bird's, which seems to sing of love, And mingles with the song of cherubim, As the day closes over Eden's walls; — All these are nothing, to my eyes and heart, Like Adah's face: I turn from Earth and Heaven To gaze on it. LUCIFER. 'T is
Página 175 - son ; ask your own heart; It is not tranquil. ADAH. Alas! no; and you — Are you of Heaven '{ LUCIFER. If I am not, enquire The cause of this all-spreading happiness (Which you proclaim) of the all-great and good Maker of life and living things ; it is His secret and he keeps it. We must
Página 243 - LUCIFER. Ask him who fells. CAIN. But how * LUCIFER. By a most crushing and inexorable Destruction and disorder of the elements, Which struck a world to chaos, as a chaos Subsiding has struck out a world: such things, Though rare in time, are frequent in eternity.— Pass on, and gaze upon the past. CAIN. LUCIFER.
Página 37 - CAIN. No, Adah! no; I fain would be alone a little while. Abel, I'm sick at heart; but it will pass: Precede me, brother—I will follow shortly. And you, too, sisters, tarry not behind; Your gentleness must not be harshly met: I'll follow you anon. ADAH. If not, I will Return to seek you here.