 | Robert John Thompson - 1906 - 368 oldal
...For God is a great Will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeole Will. —Glanville. IMMORTALITY FROM NEW STANDPOINTS So ELMER GATES Professor of "Psychology... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1907 - 322 oldal
...to them my ear, and distinguished again the concluding words of the passage in Glanvill : " Man dotk not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly,...save only through the weakness of his feeble will." She died ; and I, crushed into the very dust with sorrow, could no longer endure the lonely desolation... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 356 oldal
...Shall this conqueror be not once conquered? Are we not part and parcel in Thee ? Who — who knoweth the mysteries of the will with its vigor? 'Man doth not yield him to the angels, NOB UNTO DEATH UTTERLY, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.' " And now, as if exhausted... | |
 | Amelia Hughes, James Vila Blake - 1908 - 164 oldal
...give not back his worth. — From "Discoveries." The poet discovereth that "man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble" song. My earthly end can not be far, a bare Seventh, perhaps, of the dear years now run, Or if by reason... | |
 | Theodore Stanton - 1909 - 520 oldal
...merely a prose-rhapsody on the theme expressed in the words of old Glanvill, "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his own feeble will." This theme, the supremacy of mind over matter, was one over which Poe busied himself... | |
 | Paul Wächtler - 1911 - 122 oldal
...God is but a great will performing all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will", Worte, die auch die sterbende Ligeia selbst ausspricht. Die Identitätslehre Schellings wird erwähnt,... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine - 1912 - 264 oldal
...Ligeia, the best example, starting from a saying of Joseph Glanville's, that "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will," demonstrates how the soul of a passionate woman long dead returned to her husband's side by appropriating... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 oldal
...of a " literary man," observed of the children of Israel — or " Jacobel," if any one prefers it. angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will." The sentiment is great and — Heaven knows ! — appealing ; the aura or penumbra of expression (which... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - 1913 - 292 oldal
...welter of bewilderments and horror orders itself into a clear plot whose theme Poe has thrice sounded: 'Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death...save only through the weakness of his feeble will'. Probably few plots admit of such manipulation. The dramatic form is too intense to suit most material.... | |
 | Harry Torsey Baker - 1916 - 292 oldal
...God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. Peter B. Kyne's series of tales l about Captain Matt Peasley, of Thomaston, Maine, and old Gappy Ricks,... | |
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For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. 
