 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 էջ
...the language of his heart he expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked existence. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious garden ? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, 'twere but right And equal to reduce... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 474 էջ
...Paradise Lost, Hilton represents Adam, after the Fall, -as exclaiming, in the anguish of his soul — • Did I request Thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man ; did I solicit Thee From darkness to promote me ? My will Concurred not to my being/ Under how many various pressures of misery have men been driven... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 էջ
...me, all from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound, On me, as on their natural centre, light Heavy, though in their place. O fleeting joys Of Paradise,...solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious garden ? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, it were but right And equal to reduce... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 էջ
...his heart he expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked existence — E " Did 1 request Thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man...solicit Thee From darkness to promote me ? or here place In this delicious garden ? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, 'twere but right And equal to reduce... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 էջ
...reflux on me rebound ; On me, as on their natural center, light 740 Heavy, though in their place. 0 fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting...solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here place In this delicious garden ? As my will Concurr'd not to my being, it were but right And equal to reduce... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 էջ
...execration. So, besides Mine own that bide upon me, all from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound— On me, as on their natural centre, light; 740 Heavy,...fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! )id I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me Man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 824 էջ
...me, all from me Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound ; On me, as on their natural centre, light Heavy, though in their place. O fleeting joys Of Paradise,...request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? D'd I solicit thee From darkness to promote me, or here plnce In this delicious garden ? As my will... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 էջ
...placed in a warped body. Mary Shelley's epigraph from Paradise Lost sums up the monster's charges: Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...Man, did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? (X. 743-45) These lines express what came to be a widespread Romantic experience: the protest against... | |
 | George E. Haggerty - 2010 - 216 էջ
...private suffering-horror, private abjection, by means of a poetic transformation of enigma into belief. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould Me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? — This epigraph to Frankenstein, from Paradise Lost (10:743-45), takes us straight to the heart of... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 էջ
...Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. This is followed by a quotation from Milton's "Paradise Lost": Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me...man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? In his 1819 preface to "Prometheus Unbound," Percy Shelley would collocate the same two texts: The... | |
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