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" His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my... "
The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry - Page 26
1806 - 304 pages
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Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Milton

John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep...no more Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still...
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The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 2

John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...I meet Mortality my sentence, and be Earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my Mothers lap ? there I should rest And sleep secure; his dreadful...more Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse To mee and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest...
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The Best British Short Stories of ...

Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos - Short stories - 1925 - 392 pages
...How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! there I should rest And sleep secure. Sleep and no sleep: peace and no peace. Must I live still? an agony pendant on the long chain of my...
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Paradise lost

John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...sentence, and be Earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my Mothers lap? there I should resl And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more Would Thunder in my ears, no fear of worse To mee and to my offering would torment me Pursues me slill, leasl all I cannot die, With cruel expeftation....
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 500 pages
...How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep...that pure breath of life, the Spirit of Man Which God inspired, cannot together perish With this corporeal clod. Then, in the grave, Or in some other dismal...
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A Milton Encyclopedia, Volume 8

William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...or rational faculty, or some action or affection belonging to those faculties" (CD 15:39). Also, . . that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man Which God inspir'd. . . . (PL 10. 784-85) Thus spirit as the breath of life is equated with "soul," which has the same...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap! There I should rest And sleep secure. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet How often are we to die before we go right off this stage? In...
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The Changing Fictions of Masculinity

David Rosen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 260 pages
...How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be Earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my Mother's lap! There I should rest And sleep secure; . . . Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die, Lest the pure breath of Life, the Spirit...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...How gladly would 1 meet. Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down, H WALDO EMERSON (1 803-82). US essayist, poet. philosopher. T JOHN MILTON (1608-74J. English poet. Adam, in Paradise Lost, bk. 10. 83 Yet nightly pitch my moving...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap! There 1 should rest And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears; no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still...
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