 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 - 1881 - 590 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... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...PARADISE LOST. Inhospitable appear and desolate, Nor knowing us nor known; and if by prayer Incessant fered much for thee ; What canst thou bear for me ? And I have brought cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 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. 310 But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. Sh. Hen. VI. n. 2, 1. 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 eries : But pray'r against his absolute deeree No more avails... | |
 | John Milton - Fore-edge painting - 1881 - 528 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 ean, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous eries : But prayer against his absolute deeree... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...pray, let me Interpret for him. r. MILTON — Paradise !¿>st. Bk. XI. Line 31. If by pray'r Incessant how rare The hours that fall to Virtue's share ! /. SCOTT— Rokeby. C cease To weary Him with my assiduous crie«. a. MILTON— Paradise JMSÍ. Bk. XI. Lim- 307. Sighs now... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...still remember what the Lord hath done. 3987 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 1. 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 avaiis... | |
 | B. P. Moore - American fiction - 1885 - 334 pages
...Edgar, who was much honored for his great success. CHAPTER XVI. WORKING TO REST. 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. — Milton's Paradise Loit. THE season of revival had its... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Religious poetry - 1885 - 1148 pages
...PARADISE LOST. Inhospitable appear and desolate, Nor knowing us nor known; and if by prayer Incessant 1 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... | |
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