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Literary notes about everlasting (AI summary)

The term everlasting is employed across literature to evoke a sense of timeless continuity and enduring significance. In sacred texts, it underscores the unending nature of divine promises such as eternal life, rest, and favor ([1], [2], [3], [4]), while in poetic works and classical drama it enriches themes of honor, love, or even punishment by suggesting a perpetual state ([5], [6], [7]). Meanwhile, in modern narratives the word can adopt a playful or ironic tone, capturing both the majestic and the mundane aspects of time as experienced by individuals ([8], [9]). Whether emphasizing cosmic permanence or human vulnerability, everlasting serves as a powerful marker of the infinite in literary expression ([10], [11]).
  1. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  5. God will clothe thee with the double garment of justice, and will set a crown on thy head of everlasting honour.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. Reproach and everlasting shame Sits mocking in our plumes.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  7. O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest; And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
    — from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  8. It made him sick, he said, SICK; this everlasting mother-mother-mothering.
    — from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  9. "Mother says I may when I'm eighteen perhaps, but two years is an everlasting time to wait.
    — from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  10. Monotheism was recognized in the unknown god, who is from everlasting to everlasting.
    — from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
  11. Churches are best for Prayer, that have least light: 30 To see God only, I goe out of sight: And to scape stormy dayes, I chuse An Everlasting night.
    — from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Donne

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