 | Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 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. — Joseph Glanvill. I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became... | |
 | Mary Burchard Orvis - 1928 - 314 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. Of course, Poe lias a powerful plot in this story; still, it belongs definitely in the group of theme... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1984 - 1440 oldal
...I bent to them my ear and distinguished, again, the concluding words of the passage in Glanvill — "Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death...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... | |
 | A. Robert Lee - 1986 - 216 oldal
...Ligeia quotes a remark she attributes to Joseph Glanvill: 'who knoweth the mysteries of the will in its vigor? Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor...save only through the weakness of his feeble will.' Death ends our identity; our will ends with death. Poe plainly believes these things as much as the... | |
 | George Steiner - 1984 - 448 oldal
...a passage from the seventeenth-century English divine Joseph Glanvill: 'Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.' That is Ahab's secret battle-cry and it was Tolstoy's hope when he questioned the need of mortality.... | |
 | Alfred Habegger - 2004 - 312 oldal
...refusal to die. As Edna puts it, "You know Glanville said, and Poe quoted, 'Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.' Mine is strong, invincible" (St. Elmo 439). Through most of Beulah, the emphasis is on the heroine's... | |
 | Brian J. Frost - 1989 - 170 oldal
...for immortality. As the famous quote preceding Poe's "Ligeia" asserts: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will". This being so, the first requirement of any would-be vampire is an indomitable will to survive. Given... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1976 - 676 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. Joseph Glanvill.I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became... | |
 | Kenneth Silverman - 1993 - 152 oldal
...soul. Her reiterations of a remark attributed to Joseph Glanvill - that "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will" - testify to a fierce combativeness.16 Annie Leclerc has argued that the concept of masculine heroism,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1993 - 320 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.1 JOSEPH GLANVILL I CANNOT for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became... | |
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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. 
