...Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than hee Whom Thunder...

...the hell of bitterness and vengeance. In the words of Milton's Paradise Lost, 'The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.' The media today bring us stories of those whose loved ones have been victims of terrible crimes - the parents...

...MPP are to book, line, or page numbers). As Hughes edits them, the lines read, "The mind is its own place, and in itself /Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." 7. Hogle, Shelley's Process, 22. 8. Compare Byron's characterization of the Archangel Michael, in The...

...Soul 15.4; TL 2, 53-54; /Fbk 1. 6, 14. 38. See the famous lines of Paradise Lost: "A mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n." In a future volume on Romanticism, I will explore the relationship between Boehme and Blake on the...

...different attitudes. Boredom and interest levels ultimately are determined by the mind. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. John Milton (1608-1674) You can help another person, or even yourself, make that switch of perspective....

...Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 255 230. hut is glossed as meaning "aspect" or ap- for whom "sublimation" meant the refining of pearance...

...legions in Hell, the power of his mind to transform thoroughly his environment: "The mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n" (1.2 54-5 ). The rhetorical figure of speech in line 2 5 5 - chiasmus - reminds us that the active,...

...time. As Milton wrote in Paradise Lost: A mind not to be changed by place or time The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. It would seem that one of the first human reactions to the understanding of the inevitability of one's...

...Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 255 What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than hee Whom Thunder...

...define reality as safe and predictable. "The mind is its own place," declared the poet John Milton, "and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."60 Acute pain can be so disorienting that it is wise to prepare for it in advance by weaving...