 | Amelia Hughes, James Vila Blake - 1908 - 164 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 356 pages
...therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? 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." Length... | |
 | Theodore Stanton - History - 1909 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Paul Wächtler - Comparative literature - 1911 - 122 pages
...not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigour? For God is but a great will performing all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not...death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will", Worte, die auch die sterbende Ligeia selbst ausspricht. Die Identitätslehre Schellings... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1911 - 408 pages
...mysteries of the will, with its vigor ? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature qf its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the...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... | |
 | Alfred Reichert - 1912 - 152 pages
...therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigour? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its...doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death ulterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will".4 Das Ziel ift eine Halluzination: die... | |
 | Walter B. Pitkin - Novelle - 1912 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 518 pages
...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)... | |
 | Harry Torsey Baker - Authorship - 1916 - 292 pages
...therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigour? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its...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... | |
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And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? 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... 
