Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain .unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 45by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederic William Cronhelm - Predestination - 1860 - 106 pages
...overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree, Or high foreknowledge ; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge...unforeknown. So, without least impulse, or shadow of fate, Or ought by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge,... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 572 pages
...Which haJ no less proved certain unforeknown. S' without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or slight by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to...all Both what they judge and what they choose ; for so I formed them free, and free they must remain, Till tbey inthril themselves; I else must change... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge : they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate. Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...Predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree, Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge...all, Both what they judge and what they choose; for so I formed them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthral themselves; 1 else must change... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...over-ruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree, Of high foreknowledge. They thomselvee decreed Their own revolt, not I : if I foreknew, Foreknowledge...unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 738 pages
...prédestination over-ruled Their will disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge. They themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Who had no less proved certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of l'ate, Or aught by... | |
| Elizabeth Ely Fuller - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 332 pages
...(3:681-91) Yet Adam and Eve must still be responsible for discerning and choosing wisely. As God says, "they trespass, authors to themselves in all, / Both what they judge and what they choose." God himself is "unapproached" and "invisible." veiled in radiant cloud (3: 3. 375-80), and as Moloch... | |
| Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski - Philosophy - 1996 - 224 pages
...over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or by me immutablie foreseen,... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Predestination overruled Their will, disposed by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I: If I foreknew, Foreknowledge...without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught byrne immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge and what... | |
| Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...chooses death. As God says of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass,...in all Both what they judge and what they choose. (3.120-23) In Samson Agonistes, though providence fulfills God's prophecy, the play is a tragedy because... | |
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