 Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or Reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.  Essays for College English - Page 235edited by - 1915 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 354 pages
...or outward circumference of Energy. " 3. Energy is Eternal Delight. " Those who restrain desire to do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained...restrainer, or reason, usurps its place and governs tho unwilling. "And being restrained it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 444 pages
...pas«age : " And being restrained it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is...restrained ; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. " The history of this is written in Paradise Lost. & the Governor or Reason... | |
 | Century Guild of Artists (London, England) - 1887 - 218 pages
...the Body ; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. 3. Energy is Eternal Delight. Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is...restrained ; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restraind, it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow... | |
 | Alfred Thomas Story - 1893 - 192 pages
...Body, and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. " 3. Energy is Eternal Delight. " Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained ; and the restraint, or reason, usurps its place and governs the unwilling. " Arid being restrained it by degrees... | |
 | Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - 1903 - 330 pages
...which I shall recommend no farther than to say, that though mystical, it is full of matter : — " Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be constrained, and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And, being restrained,... | |
 | William Blake - 1907 - 90 pages
...cast out desire or energy (Satan), which "is the only life"; for, as he ! contemptuously observes, " those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained," and, as he further explains, • in A Vision of the Last judgment, " Men are admitted into heaven, not because... | |
 | William Blake - 1914 - 554 pages
...the Body ; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. 3. Energy is Eternal Delight. Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is...Reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is .only the shadow of Desire. / The history... | |
 | Charles Gardner - 1916 - 250 pages
...moral conceptions. We have supposed that the ascetics succeeded in restraining desire. Blake wrote: " Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained." This cannot have been the case with the majority. In the night season when the inhibitory powers are... | |
 | Denis Saurat - 1920 - 98 pages
...morality. Blake explains his position in antagonism to Milton's in : The Marriage of Heaven and Hell : \ « Those who restrain Desire do so because theirs is...Reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling. » And, being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of Desire. » The... | |
 | Denis Saurat - 1920 - 94 pages
...thoughts, and heart enlarges, has his seat In Reason, and is judicious (2). But Blake holds that : « Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained — it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of Desire » (3). And Blake has summed... | |
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