 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1802 - 280 pàgines
...sustain life, but the fear of annihilation — the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread — I cannot bear to think of being no more — of losing...appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only •be organized... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 pàgines
...sustain life, but the fear of annihilation — the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread — I cannot bear to think of being no more — of losing myself . . . ; it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, resdess spirit,... | |
 | Meena Alexander - 1989 - 240 pàgines
...so restless, so vibrant that she cannot conceive of annihilation. She ponders the terror of death: I cannot bear to think of being no more - of losing...appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist ... (L. 76) The longing to believe quickens her gaze, a delicate detail of jellyfish below the water's... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pàgines
...letter she wrote, "the fear of annihilation — the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread — I cannot bear to think of being no more — of losing...existence is often but a painful consciousness of misery" (Scand. 281). 37. Mary Poovey, The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works... | |
 | Mary Jacobus - 1995 - 324 pàgines
...without her love letters, she would be dead (to him). Musing on "the fear of annihilation," she exclaims: "I cannot bear to think of being no more — of losing...existence is often but a painful consciousness of misery" (A Short Residence, 112). The thought of her own death threatens to disrupt the text, as she demands,... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - 438 pàgines
...discussions of aesthetics and the sublime and the beautiful are tied to her terrifying fear of death: "I cannot bear to think of being no more — of losing...existence is often but a painful consciousness of misery" (Letter VIII). Her professional voice that "asks men's questions" becomes a feminist voice that expresses... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - 2002 - 314 pàgines
...6:311; see also 279); but on another occasion she confesses her dread of being lost in that endlessness: "I cannot bear to think of being no more - of losing myself. . . . nay it seems impossible to me ... that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 pàgines
...future. And finally to death itself, which she viewed with a mixture of terror and anticipatory awe. 'I cannot bear to think of being no more - of losing myself-' she told Imlay,'. .. nay, it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active,... | |
 | Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 442 pàgines
...child-birth. She whose sense of her own existence was so intense, who had cried out even in her misery, "I cannot bear to think of being no more — of losing myself — nay, it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist", died at the age of thirty-six.... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pàgines
...to sustain life, but the fear of annihilation - the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread - I cannot bear to think of being no more - of losing...appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organized dust... | |
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I cannot bear to think of being no more - of losing myself - though existence is often but a painful consciousness of misery; nay, it appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist... 
