 | Dorothy Scarborough - 1917 - 362 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Clayton Meeker Hamilton - 1918 - 272 Seiten
...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." Poe recognized, with the English moralist, that the human will is strong and can conquer many of the... | |
 | Joseph Lewis French - 1920 - 330 Seiten
...God is but a great will prevading all thiiigs 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... | |
 | Joseph Lewis French - 1920 - 326 Seiten
...God is but a great will prevading 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... | |
 | Joseph Lewis French - 1920 - 328 Seiten
...God is but a great will prevading 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... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1920 - 498 Seiten
...Catherine lives. It is as if Emily Bronte had said with Joseph Glanville, "Man doth not yield himself to the angels nor unto death utterly save only through the weakness of his own feeble will."82 It is this power — the force, the mystery of the individual and his emotions,... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1921 - 370 Seiten
...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...save only through the weakness of his feeble will.' " This is not a strong passage, not strong enough for the strategic position that it occupies in the... | |
 | Edith Birkhead - 1921 - 262 Seiten
...Glanvill's declaration so strikingly illustrated in the return of Ligeia : " Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will." \ In Ligeia, Poe concentrates on this idea with singleness of purpose. He had striven to embody it... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 208 Seiten
...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, nor unto death utterly, eave only through the weakness of his feeble SrilL" And now, as if exhausted with emotion, she suffered... | |
 | David Herbert Lawrence - 1923 - 282 Seiten
...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." It is a profound saying: and a deadly one. Because if God is a great will, then the universe is but... | |
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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. 
