 Nor knowing us nor known; and if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against His absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind,...  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 333by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...else * 03 Inhospitable1 appear, and desolate, Nor knowing us nor known : and, if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries: 3lo But pray'r against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 pages
...Inhospitable' appear, and desolate ; Nor knowing ns, nor known ; and, if by prayer Incessant I conld hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I wonld not cease To weary him with my assidnons cries: 310 Bnt pray'r ngaiast his absolnte decree No... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...fliow'rs. ShiThe inceffant weeping of my wife Forc'd me to feck delays. Shei, If, by pray'r Incfffant, 1 could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not ceafr To weary him with my affiduous cries. Mil"*In form, a herald of the king Hie flies From peer... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 808 pages
...kill by clofenefa of air : to fuffocate. — I amßißed With the mere ranknefs of their joy. Sbak. Pray'r againft his abfolute decree No more avails than breath againft the wind : Blovmßißing back on him that breathes it ¡urn. Milton. —That part of the air that drew out,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...• Forc'd me to feek delays. Shot. If, by pray r Inceffaat, I could hope to change the will Of mm E ] B0 44 TAbI 3 H %^g t`Ŏ { $Ni c| H j46A ailiduous cries. Milta-- In form, a herald of the king (he flies From peer to peer, and thus mceffiaa... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear, and desolate; Nor knowing us, nor known: And, if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear, and desolate; Nor knowing us, nor known : and, if by prayer Incessant solemnity.— Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantas cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 356 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear, and desolate ; Nor knowing us, nor known : and, if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...else Inhospitable appear, and desolate ; Nor knowing us, nor known : and, if by prayer • Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 10. If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries ; But pray'r against his absolue decree No more avails than... | |
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