Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good... The Works of Lord Byron - Page 309by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825Full view - About this book
| Instituto Geográfico Argentino, Buenos Aires - 1889 - 420 pages
...who dare look the Omnipo-tent• .tyrapf ,i» Sis .«veri asting face, aud ;tell , Him¡ fjtatf is evil is not good! If He has m'ade,' As He saith, — which I know not, tibr bellé\»é'-'Bnt if He made us -^- He' oanÁot' «nmafc'e:i • We are iminortal ! — Nay^ 'He^... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 pages
...being that which I am — and thou art — Of spirits and of men. Cain. And what is that? l.ncifir. dungeon bright. And not a word of murmur — not A groan o He'd have us so, That He may torture : — let Him. He is great — Rut, in His greatness, no happier... | |
| Alfred Williams Momerie - 1891 - 76 pages
...adoration before a deity that conscience taught them to despise ; honest enough " To look the almighty tyrant in his everlasting face, And tell him that his evil is not good." So much for the fallacy as to the legitimate immorality of God. It is only the old vulgar doctrine... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1892 - 324 pages
...pen with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality," Byron wrote in his Cain: " Souls that dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good ; " or he wrote : " . . . And thou would'st go on aspiring To the great double Mysteries ! the tivo... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 pages
...pen with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality," Byron wrote in his Cain . " Souls that dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good ; " or he wrote: ". . . And thou would'st go on aspiring To the great double Mysteries ! the two Principles!... | |
| 1893 - 942 pages
...before His face." In one place Job, like a modern and very different hero of fiction, dares look Jehovah in " His everlasting face, and tell Him that His evil is not good." He refuses to abide by the apparent decision of God, not because he doubts that it is a divine ukase... | |
| John Davidson - 1896 - 264 pages
...spirits were falling rapidly, and selected a passage in ' Cain,' which she read with muttering lips. ' Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who...everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good.' The impulse of these verses, if they can be called so, was enough, in her overwrought condition, to... | |
| John Davidson - 1896 - 258 pages
...spirits were falling rapidly, and selected a passage in ' Cain,' which she read with muttering lips. ' Souls who dare use their immortality— Souls who...everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good.' The impulse of these verses, if they can be called so, was enough, in her overwrought condition, to... | |
| Heinrich Gillardon - 1898 - 124 pages
...oben angefufyrten Stellen aus Sfyelley's Didjtung mit 6en folijen6en aus ,,l{atn". Kain Itft l, \. . Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who dare look the omnipotent Tyrant in His ever lasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good! If he has made, As he saith — which I... | |
| Utah. Constitutional Convention - 1898 - 988 pages
...the hero of Paradise Lost. It is Lucifer, the fallen, that bold, brave, Independent spirit "who dared look the omnipotent tyrant In his everlasting face and tell him that his evil was not good." He is the hero of the poem, the one toward whom the current of romantic sentiment naturally... | |
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