 | Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1901 - 660 psl.
...it must not be overlooked that Arnold defines " moral idea " in a most broad and tolerant spirit: " Whatever bears upon the question ' How to live,' comes...well, how long or short, permit to heaven.' In those lines Milton utters, as every one at once perceives, a 'Critics of poetry often still confine " form... | |
 | 1909 - 502 psl.
...till my appointed day Of rendering up, and patiently attend My dissolution." Michael replied: — " Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well ; how long or short permit to Heaven. And now prepare thee for another sight." He looked, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 psl.
...to be given to the term moral. Whatever bears upon the question, 'how to live,' comes under it. 10 'Nor love thy life, nor hate; but, what thou liv'st,...those fine lines Milton utters, as every one at once pereeives, a moral idea. Yes, but so too, when Keats consoles the forwardbending lover on the Grecian... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 psl.
...refuge between despair and presumption, which Milton's Michael was to delineate to the fallen Adam: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st / Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n."" But New Wave heroes and heroines seldom permit the choice to Heaven. With the possible exception... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 psl.
...sentence is in brevier type," Johnson prints, on one occasion, Raphael's advice to Adam in Paradise Lost, "Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv'st / Live well, how long or short, permit to Heav'n" (xi. 553-54). On these and other rare occasions Johnson made a moral point directly, but his... | |
 | Emerson R. Marks - 1998 - 428 psl.
...of "how to live." Casting about for the relevant touchstone he finds one ready to hand in Milton's Nor love thy life, nor hate; but, what thou liv'st, Live well; how long or short, permit to heaven. But Keats too, he adds, just as surely "utters a moral idea" when he consoles the lover depicted on... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 psl.
...keep till my appointed day 550 Of rendering up, and patiently attend My dissolution. Michael replied,0 Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liVst Live well, how long or short permit to heaven: And now prepare thee for another sight. He looked and saw a spacious plain, whereon0 Were tents of... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 psl.
...keep till my appointed day 550 Of rend'ring up, and patiently attend My dissolution. Michael repli'd. Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n : 529. Cf. X, 246, and XI, 199-200 and 463. cause it, by diminution of spirits and substance"... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 psl.
...keep till my appointed day 550 Of rend'ring up, and patiently attend My dissolution. Michael repli'd. Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Hcav'n: And now prepare thee for another sight. 555 He look'd and saw a spacious Plain, whereon Were... | |
 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 psl.
...is the price of life and that loving life over-much to the point of not accepting death is a vice: "Nor love thy Life nor hate: but what thou liv'st / Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n" (11.553-54). The third scene, the plain, gives Adam some pleasures and accomplishments to anticipate,... | |
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short, permit to Heaven: And now prepare thee for another sight. 
