...rewards us by no arbitrary external penalties, but by our own consciousness of being what we are : The mind which is immortal, makes itself Requital...mortality derives No colour from the fleeting things about, But is absorbed in sufferance or in joy, Born from the knowledge of its own desert. This idea,...

...upon me, thnt I feel ; Thou never shalt possess me, that I know : What I have done is done ; I hear I now can he ; The passions which have torn me would...Amhition what had I to do? Little with Love, and least of tune : its innate sense, When stripp'd of this mortality, derives No colour from the fleeting things...

...but by our own consciousness of being what we are : The mind which is immortal, makes itself Eequital for its good or evil thoughts ; Is its own origin...mortality derives No colour from the fleeting things about, But is absorbed in sufferance or in joy, Born from the knowledge of its own desert. This idea,...

...proceding scenes. But the reflections, often striking, are seldom absolutely fresh : that beginning, The mind, which is immortal, makes itself Requital...origin of ill and end, And its own place and time, is transplanted from Milton with as little change as Milton made in transplanting it from Marlowe....

...demons back, in repudiation of the Faust legend, and dies his own human death, yielding only to himself: The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, — Is it owns origin of ill and end — And its own place and time: its innate sense, When stripp'd of this...

...lines in which the unhappy hero of the tragedy flings his last defiance to the accusing demons — " The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for...And its own place and time— its innate sense, When stripped of this mortality, derives No colour from the fleeting things without, But is absorbed in...

...obstinate: Back to thy hell! Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel; Thou never shalt possess me, that I know; What I have done is done; I bear within A torture...origin of ill and end And its own place and time. . . . (lll, iv, 124-32) Here, in this heroic burst, Manfred repels the forces of evil to face death...

...Yeats's idea. At the very end of the drama Manfred concludes his soliloquy with the following words: The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for...And its own place and time; its innate sense When stripp'd of this mortality, derives No colour from the fleeting things without, But is absorb'd in...

...muerte: ...Back to hell! Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel; Thou never shalt possess me, that I know: What I have done is done; I bear within A torture...which could nothing gain from thine: The Mind which is inmortal makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts,— Is its own origin of ill and end—...

...possess me, that I know," insists: The mind which is immortal makes itself Requital for its good and evil thoughts — Is its own origin of ill and end — And its own place and time. (Manfred, III, iv, 129-32) Manfred's claim to awe traces to his ability to resist all powers beyond...