 Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance >° Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp...  The Dublin university magazine - Page 740by University magazine - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1924 - 486 pages
...agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and En-- durance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which...if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts mid hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length ; These are the spells by which... | |
 | J. Prinsen - 1925 - 558 pages
...door het gejubel van het heelal wordt begroet: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom and Endurance, These are seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit...with his length; These are the spells by which to réassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive... | |
 | 1877 - 926 pages
...the Christian life ; and all ends in a yearning for that spirit of God which Christ came to bring. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength. To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...Shelley's whole approach to his theme. Demogorgon's concluding announcement is full of abstractions: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These -are...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; . . . The final stanza is packed with personal moral feeling for all its generalizations: To suffer... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 pages
...Victory" (575-79); but he also hints that such firmness may be an idealism only to be dreamed about: "if, with infirm hand, Eternity, / Mother of many acts and hours, should free / The serpent . . ." (565-67). At some future hour, Demogorgon appears to be suggesting, Prometheus may be expected... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 338 pages
...yet turn out to be unstable, that the amphisba^na may turn out to be the ourobouros after all: ... if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts...should free The serpent that would clasp her with its length — (IV. 565-7) There is, as Timothy Webb observes, a suggestion here of the chaining of... | |
 | Samuel Lyndon Gladden - 2002 - 376 pages
...of love and guarantee its perpetual victory over despotism, if ever despotism threatens to return: Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, — These...assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength. (4.562-564) Demogorgon closes the play by listing the Promethean abilities that characterize the age... | |
 | Wes Mantooth - 2006 - 246 pages
...concluding warning that darker days may once again cast shadows over humanity's new benevolent glow — "if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free / The serpent" (4.565-7) — suggests a threat not entirely within human control to avoid. Likewise, to restore earthly... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - 2007 - 346 pages
...Demogorgon summarizes in his famous closing words - that 'Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom and Endurance/ . . . are the seals of that most firm assurance / Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength' (IV.562-64) - is what Prometheus seems to know intuitively from the very first act onwards. This conception... | |
 | 1917 - 784 pages
...slippery, steep And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are...should free The serpent that would clasp her with its length These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom. To suffer... | |
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