 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
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...nnhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. 8h. 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 cries : But pray'r against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 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 - 1870 - 352 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear and desolate, Nor knowing us nor known ; and if by prayer I ncessant dies ? The loud waves, rolling in perpetual flow, Stopped for a while cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. But pi-,iyer against his absolute decree No mon.' ¡ivuils... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 422 pages
...places elfe Inhofpitable appeer and defolate, Nor knowing us nor known : and if by prayer Inceflant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not ceafe 310 To wearie him with my afliduous cries : But prayer againft his abfolute Decree No more availes... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 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 criea. But prayer against His absolute decree No more avails than... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...else 805 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: sio But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
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