 | Martin Middeke, Werner Huber - Literary Collections - 1999 - 248 pages
...with well-known lines from Demogorgon's last speech about the power of love, forgiveness, and hope: "To defy power which seems omnipotent — /To love,...creates / From its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (81/309). This kind of hope is called "Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free."37 This element... | |
 | Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Medical - 1999 - 326 pages
...Facets of Hope F. BERYL PILKINGTON Who against hope believed in hope. Romans 4:18 (King James Version) To hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. Act iv, 1. 573 The subject of hope has been widely discussed in the popular... | |
 | Frederick Delius, Peter Warlock - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 580 pages
...her with his length, These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory.' (Prometheus Unbound: act 4) * CE Rait, The World's Redemption (London, 1913), At the same time, there... | |
 | Roslyn Reso Foy - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 196 pages
...the forces which struck out against them. The final passage of Prometheus Unbound offered solutions: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...beautiful and free. This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.14 20 "/ Strove to Seize the Inmost Form " The influence of the three romantics, Blake, Wordsworth,... | |
 | Michael Seed - Religion - 2000 - 194 pages
...before I die." And he introduced me to his favourite quotation from Percy Shelley, which became my own. To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite, To forgive...death or night, To defy power which seems omnipotent, Never to change, nor falter, nor repent. This is to be good, great and joyous, beautiful and free,... | |
 | John Heilpern - Art - 2000 - 322 pages
...a Turgenev struggling in private doubt to create a new form of theater with A Month in the Country* "To hope, till hope creates from its own wreck, the thing it contemplates," Shelley wrote. Never seeing his one great play staged as he imagined, the despairing Turgenev looked... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - Religion - 2001 - 604 pages
...essence of Shelley's own spiritual vision, are declared by Demogorgon in the poem's closing lines: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan [= Prometheus] , is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire,... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - English language - 2001 - 598 pages
...possibilities; above all, a new way of seeing the world. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinire; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omniporent; To love, and beat; to hope till Hope cteares From its own wreck the thing it conremplares;... | |
 | Chris J. Magoc - History - 2002 - 324 pages
...Shelley's Prometheus Unbound [1819]. Wise users, I think, will recognize themselves in these lines: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive...seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope itself creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - History - 2001 - 552 pages
...film score, universalizes the theme of the film and the symphony, the struggle of man against nature: To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite, To forgive...death or night, To defy power which seems omnipotent, Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent: This is to be Good, great, joyous, beautiful and free, This... | |
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To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates ; Neither to change, nor falter,... 
