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" For 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. "
Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural ... - xl. oldal
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Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 356 oldal
...will, with its vigor? Fof God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto...save only through the weakness of his feeble will. — JOSEPH GLANVILL. CANNOT, for my soul, remember how, I when, or even precisely where, I first I...

James Vila Blake as Poet: Being a Brief Appreciation of His Work with ...

Amelia Hughes, James Vila Blake - 1908 - 164 oldal
...kiss, And love it, though it give not back his worth. — From "Discoveries." The poet discovereth that "man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto...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...

A Manual of American Literature

Theodore Stanton - 1909 - 524 oldal
...tale is slight; it is 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...

Edgar Allan Poe und die deutsche Romantik, 110. kötet

Paul Wächtler - 1911 - 122 oldal
...will, with its vigour? For God is but a great will performing all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto...save only through the weakness of his feeble will", Worte, die auch die sterbende Ligeia selbst ausspricht. Die Identitätslehre Schellings wird erwähnt,...

The Art and the Business of Story Writing

Walter B. Pitkin - 1912 - 284 oldal
...horror orders itself into a clear plot whose theme Poe has thrice sounded: 'Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, 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....

A History of English Prose Rhythm

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...

A History of English Prose Rhythm

George Saintsbury - 1912 - 518 oldal
...feeble | will," is by itself almost insolently metrical. But the echo of the entirely different opening, "Man | doth not yield | himself | to the angels | nor unto | Death | utterly," reclaims and redeems it for prose, though even here the subtle third paeon (with its ionic suggestion)...

The Contemporary Short Story: A Practical Manual

Harry Torsey Baker - 1916 - 296 oldal
...will, with its vigour? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of . its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto...save only through the weakness of his feeble will. Peter B. Kyne's series of tales 1 about Captain Matt Peasley, of Thomaston, Maine, and old Gappy Ricks,...

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

Dorothy Scarborough - 1917 - 362 oldal
...morbid studies of metempsychosis, the theme is clearly announced, as quoted from Joseph Glanville: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels nor unto...death utterly save only through the weakness of his own feeble will." The worshipped Ligeia dies, and in an hour of madness her husband marries the Lady...

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

Dorothy Scarborough - 1917 - 352 oldal
...naturally suggests Poe's Ligeia which is the climax of ghostly horror of this motif, with its thesis that "man doth not yield himself to the angels nor unto death utterly save through the weakness of his own feeble will " expressed in a terrible crescendo of ghastly horror....




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