 | Henry Dox Kimball - Eschatology - 1896 - 262 pages
...wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. " What then were God to such as I ? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness, and to cease." — Alfred Tennyson, " In Memoriam." CHAPTER III. CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE AFTER DEATH— SUPERNATURAL WITNESS.... | |
 | Theology - 1880 - 692 pages
...some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I? 'Twere hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal,...peace Like birds the charming serpent draws To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease." Towards the close of this period he gazes... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1896 - 520 pages
...chokes me, in a moment, — full of insipidity and indolence.' " Essays, Diderot, III, 307. 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming...foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. In Memoriam, xxiv. 4. See Exodus xx. 4. 152 23. Full of such humour. " Nothing in ' Sartor Resartus... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 522 pages
...and chokes me, in a moment,—full of insipidity and indolence.* " Essays, Diderot, III, 307. 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming...foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. See Exodus xx. 4. In Memoriam, xxiv. 4. 152 23. Full of such humour. " Nothing in ' Sartor Resartus... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1896 - 522 pages
..." Essays, Diderot, III, 307. 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming sorpent draws, To drop head foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease. In Memoriam, xxiv. 4. See Exodus xx. 4. 152 23. Full of such humour. " Nothing in ' Sartor Resartus... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1897 - 190 pages
...life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and ashes all that is. ... 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease.'' In quoting this passage and the speech... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1898 - 548 pages
...and has his being." (d) Ring out the darkness of the land, King in the Christ that is to be. (i) " 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost in the jaws Of vacant darkness and to cease." (/) Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drowned.... | |
 | John Oates - Didactic poetry, English - 1898 - 366 pages
...lose all " patience," and welcome the jaws of death and darkness as an escape from infinite tyranny. " 'Twere best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws." Observe, it is not merely a question of immortality or continued existence beyond the grave apart from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1898 - 928 pages
...Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? A little patience ere I die; T were hardly worth my while to choose Of things all mortal, or to use T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop bead-foremost... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - British literature - 1898 - 920 pages
...conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I ? 'T were hardly worth my while to choose ОТ things all mortal, or to use A little patience ere I die; 'T were best at once to sink to peace, Like birds the charming serpent draws, To drop head-foremost... | |
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This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I... 
