 Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her...  Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith ... - Page 96by Kenelm Henry Digby - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Lura Nancy Gregory Pedrini, Lura Nancy Pedrini, Duilio Thomas Pedrini - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 170 pages
...expression of Shelley's faith. The poet depicts destruction as a snake, held in check by aspects of love: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
 | Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 926 pages
...the Christian life ; and all ends in a yearning for that spirit of God which Christ came to bring. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...Shelley's whole approach to his theme. Demogorgon's concluding announcement is full of abstractions: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These -are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; . . . The final stanza is packed with personal moral feeling for all its generalizations: To suffer... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...giddy hour And narrow verge of crag-like Agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom and Endurance, — These...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
 | Michael Simpson - Poetry - 1998 - 500 pages
...contingency should that guarantee fail. Closing the text, Demogorgon outlines these two eventualities: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom and Endurance,— These...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
 | Frederick Delius, Peter Warlock - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 580 pages
...hinted at before: He quotes in his book26 these lines of Shelley, which seem to bear on the point: — 'Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would... | |
 | Samuel Lyndon Gladden - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 376 pages
...of love and guarantee its perpetual victory over despotism, if ever despotism threatens to return: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, — These...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength. (4.562-564) Demogorgon closes the play by listing the Promethean abilities that characterize the age... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - History - 2007 - 346 pages
...Demogorgon summarizes in his famous closing words - that 'Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom and Endurance/ . . . are the seals of that most firm assurance / Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength' (IV.562-64) - is what Prometheus seems to know intuitively from the very first act onwards. This conception... | |
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