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
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 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... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...happy else nhospitable appear, and desolate, V ,- knowing us, nor known : and, if by prayer ncessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : 3ut prayer against his absolute decree tfo more avails... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 526 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 Milton - 1837 - 512 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 Milton - 1837 - 510 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 Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...places else 305 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... | |
| Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 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 Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 Il se tut à ces mots ; car Adam , le cœur anéanti sous le coup de la profonde douleur , avait... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 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 310 " To weary him with my assiduous cries : " But prayer against his absolute decree " No more... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 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... | |
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