| Joan C. Kessler - 1995 - 399 Seiten
...philosopher Joseph Glanvill: "Who knoweth the mysteries of the will...?... Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will." 50 In mid-nineteenth-century France, such ideas were at the core of spiritualist thinking, as expounded,... | |
| Joan C. Kessler - 1995 - 399 Seiten
...philosopher Joseph Glanvill: "Who knoweth the mysteries of the will ...?... Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will."50 In mid-nineteenth-century France, such ideas were at the core of spiritualist thinking, as... | |
| Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - 336 Seiten
...will, with its vigour? 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" (158-59). In contrast to these lines of Glanvill, Lady Ligeia in her own composition, the Ballad of... | |
| Jutta Ernst - 1996 - 218 Seiten
...not once conquered?". Ligeia hofft noch immer, mit ihrer Willenskraft den Tod verhindern zu können: "Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death...save only through the weakness of his feeble will" (319). Ihr Bestreben ist jedoch erfolglos. Nach Ligeias Tod vermählt sich der Erzähler mit Rowena,... | |
| Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa - 1996 - 502 Seiten
...Recall, for instance, her poem "The Conqueror Worm" and her frequent recitation of Glanvill's passage: "Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death...save only through the weakness of his feeble will" (CT 659). In his work Postmodernist Fiction Brian McHale mentions the deathbed passages of famous 19th-century... | |
| George Steiner - 1996 - 388 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Leon E. Mattler - 1996 - 60 Seiten
...ever-changing conditions that sent their forebearers into retirement. "Man does not deliver himself to the angels nor unto death utterly save only through the weakness of the \7ill". PREMATURE FACIAL AGING is unquestionably a bitter pill for the life of those who otherwise... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 408 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." Length of years, and subsequent reflection, have enabled me to trace, indeed, some remote connection... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - 2000 - 756 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 utterly, savej only through the weakness of his feeble will." u remembrance (A, B, C) d recognised (G) v thus,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 2001 - 194 Seiten
...lips. 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." 94 She died; - and I, crushed into the very dust with sorrow, could no longer endure the lonely desolation... | |
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