I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death Lest the Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate, And I be seiz'cl and giv'n into the hands of my own Selfhood. The Quarterly Review - Page 442edited by - 1907Full view - About this book
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 366 pages
...look forth for the morning of the grave : I will go down to the sepulehre and see if morning hreaks. I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death...Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate And I be seized and given into the hands of my own selfhood." This grand dogma, that personal love and selfishness... | |
| Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...look forth for the morning of the grave ; I will go down to the sepulchre and see if morning breaks. I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death,...last Judgment come and find me unannihilate. And I be seized and given into the hands of ray own selfhood." In forming our estimate of this extraordinary... | |
| William Blake - 1906 - 596 pages
...look forth for the morning of the grave. I will go down to the sepulcher to see if morning breaks. I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death,...the Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate, And 1 be siez'd and giv'u into the hands of my own Selfhood. 95 The Lamb of God is seen thro* mists and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...himself, he of himself contributeth naught, but, as when one layeth centre upon centre, he becoineth God's and one with God. Wherefore this vision is hard...unannihilate, And I be seiz'd and giv'n into the hands of iny own Selfhood.' For, according to Blake, personal love or selfishness is the one sin which defies... | |
| Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 192 pages
...through all eternity " ; only thus can the bonds of " selfhood " be broken. Milton, just before his renunciation, cries — I will go down to self-annihilation...passage in Milton (Book i., pp. 12, 13) well repays 1 Poems, ed. Sampson, p. 173. study, for one feels it to be alive with meaning, holding symbol within... | |
| William Blake - 1914 - 554 pages
...look forth for the morning of the grave ; I will go down to the sepulchre to see if morning breaks ; I will go down to self-annihilation and Eternal Death ; Lest the Last Judgement come and find me unannihilate, And I be seiz'd and giv'n into the hands of my own Selfhood.... | |
| Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Buddha (The concept) - 1916 - 482 pages
...VICTORY OF BUDDHA Aban'mdro Nath Tagore BUDDHA AS MENDICANT Aban'mdro Nath Tagore 24 30 50 76 88 1*6 1 50 I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death,...Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate, And I be seiafd and gilt n into the hands of my own Selfhood. Blake, " Milton." But, alas, how hard it is for... | |
| Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Art - 1918 - 228 pages
...Asiatic purpose than is revealed in his passionate will to be delivered from the bondage of division : "I will go down to self-annihilation and Eternal Death,...Last Judgment come and find me unannihilate, And I be seized and giv'n into the hands of my own Selfhood." But it is not only in Philosophy and Religion... | |
| Ba Han (Maung) - Mysticism in literature - 1924 - 294 pages
...or Satan. He now proposes to release the Spectre from the hells of his own creating. - So he says : I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death,...seiz'd and giv'n into the hands of my own selfhood. * , xi. u-a7. '76., xi. 36-44. > 76., li. 51-xH. ». At the announcement of Milton's intention Eternity... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...Ahab's cardinal sin is that of selfhood and single vision. He too might have mourned, in Blake's words : I will go down to self-annihilation and eternal death Lest the Last Judgement come and find me unannihilate, And I be seized and given into the hands of my own Selfhood.... | |
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