 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 343by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | John William Mackail - English poetry - 1909 - 228 pages
...this world, sounds as though it came straight from Hamlet. And in a very remarkable passage — If I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries — a phrase taken directly from Dante is followed strangely... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 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 - 1911 - 784 pages
...still remember what the Lord hath done. 3987 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act ii Sc. I 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 avai<s... | |
 | 1915 - 368 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 than... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 658 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, 1 would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries ; 310 But prayer against his absolute decree... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1424 pages
...seem ; yet this will prayer. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 143. 7 And if by prayer Incessant tion. Credited to LEMAITRE cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 307. 8 Prayer is the... | |
 | John Milton - 1923 - 332 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 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 than... | |
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