...melodiously. Genius a fatal gift? Ah, no! it is the greatest and the happiest of endowments. " Oh ! who would lose Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity?" Conceive the intense delight genius must feel when creajing forms of everlasting beauty? Who shall...

...above us — At our first birth the wreath of love was woven, With sparkling stars for flowers." " Oh ! who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity." " Go up stairs, my boy, and see if your mamma is ready to come down to breakfast — and give my love...

...rage, And that must end us ; that must be our cure, 146 To be no more. Sad cure ! for who would low, 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, I5C Devoid of sense and...

...exasperate The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage, And that must end as ; that must be our cure, 145 To be no more. ( Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wido womb of uncreated night, 15C Devoid of sense and...

...we may credit biographers, the least miserable day of an author's life is generally the last. "... Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain,...being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perisl1 rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?"...

...Divine" - are seconded, but far more eloquently, by Belial, in an infernal version of Hamlet's soliloquy: To be no more; sad cure; for who would lose, Though...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?...

...masculinist or any other. The question is a perennial one, and it is posed by Belial when he asks, "who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual...being / Those thoughts that wander through Eternity, / To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost?" (PL 11.146-9). One answer is that Milton would, at least...

...of sickness and old age lose much of their desire to live would cling to life with a firmer grasp. To be no more, sad cure, for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being. These thoughts that wander through eternity.1 Who would lose the common consciousness to be rid of...

...Belial to demolish. Belial, on his part, sounds better as he defends the life of the mind and asks, 'who would lose, | Though full of pain, this intellectual...being, Those thoughts that wander through Eternity' (n. 146—48). 20 But as the narrator points out, these are words only 'cloth'd in reason's garb' (n....

...Eleven: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 232 Epilogue 251 Index 261 Foreword . . . sad cure, for who would loose, 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?...