...recalls the hero of 1 Cain, II. ii. 1-9. The following passages from Cain recall lines in Paradise Lost: If he has made, As he saith — which I know not,...believe — But, if he made us — he cannot unmake (I. i. 140-42; cf. PL, ix. 718-20, and v. 850-66); But let him [God] Sit on his vast and solitary throne...

...symptomatic. Too often Byron's blank verse has no nerve of life. There resides the malady of such lines as : Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good (at which Arnold scoffed) or: Unless you keep company With him (and you seem scarce used to such high...

...symptomatic. Too often Byron's blank verse has no nerve of life. There resides the malady of such lines as : Souls who dare look the Omnipotent tyrant in His everlasting face and tell him that His evil is not good (at which Arnold scoffed) or : Unless you keep company With him (and you seem scarce used to such high...

...Calvinistic fatalism and the transcendental and humanitarian might of the individual mind, had dared to "look the Omnipotent tyrant in his Everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good!" Even Thoreau, part naturalist, the disciple of Emerson, is in Walden (1854) "conscious of an animal...

...play, is thus developed, in some lines, which, for this reason only, we give without abridgement. ' Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who...us — he cannot unmake: We are immortal! — nay, he'd have us so, That he may torture: — let him ! He is great — But, in his greatness, is no happier...

...with the 10 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;' 15 or he wrote — '. . . And thou would'st go on aspiring To the great double Mysteries! the nro Principles!'i...

...Aherne striding through clouds of incense into a bottomless pit of Freedom, or Byron's Lucifer and Cain: Souls who dare use their immortality — Souls who...everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good ! There was nothing, by 1904 or 1914, particularly novel or daring about any of these plots and gestures....

...two. And, rather like Milton, he gives the devil all the best lines. To Lucifer in Cain for instance: Souls who dare use their immortality, Souls who dare...everlasting face and tell him that His evil is not good! And here, as in Manfred, he hints at the argument that being given knowledge is not enough - man needs...

...Of being that which I am—and thou art— Of spirits and of men. Cain. And what is that? Lucifer. Souls who dare use their immortality— Souls who...everlasting face, and tell him, that His evil is not good! (Li. 130-40) Complacent acquiescence in what one has heard will not do, will not satisfy Cain, henceforward....

...being that which I am — and thon art — Of spirits and of men. Cain. And what is that ? Lucifer. n my line With my land's language : if too food His everlasting face, and tell him that His evil is not good I If he has made, As he saith — which...