 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall ; since, by fate, the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail ; Since,...great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...We may with more successful hope resolve 120 To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable, to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess...of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.' 'O Prince, O Chief of many throned Powers That led th' embatded Seraphim to war Under thy conduct,... | |
 | English literature - 2002 - 812 pages
...indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through...great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable... | |
 | Robert Detweiler, David Jasper - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 212 pages
...low indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through...great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath us This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods And this Empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through...this great event In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't, We may with more successful hope resolve 120 To wage by force or guile eternal War Irreconcilable... | |
 | Mike Millard - Business & Economics - 2004 - 180 pages
...who carry our hopes. We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs,...' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n. — John Milton CONTENTS Foreword by Ivan Hall ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii 1. Arrival... | |
 | Michael Bryson - Christian poetry, English - 2004 - 216 pages
...the Father as a tyrant: Hell is the "Prison of his Tyranny who Reigns / By our delay"; the Father is "our grand Foe, / Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy / Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav'n" (1.122-24). The key here is the phrase "Sole reigning." In a system in which lesser magistrates... | |
 | George Courtauld - History - 2005 - 76 pages
...low indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods And this Empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through...this great event In Arms not worse, in foresight much advancft, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal Warr Irreconcileable,... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...low indeed, That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods And this Empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through...advanc'd, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal War, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th'excess... | |
 | Michael W. Ford - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2006 - 457 pages
...348 We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal War Irreconcilable, to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the Tyranny ofHeav'n. " — Paradise Lost The fall, as it is called is a necessary part of the human rising towards... | |
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This downfall : since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much... 
