 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 - 1824 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 404 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 - 1824 - 572 pages
...places else sos 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 pray'r against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear, and desolate, Nor knowing us nor known; and if by pray'r Incessant unknown descends th' unguarded store, Or wanders, heaven-directed, to cease To weary him with my assiduous cries: But pray'r against his absolute decree No more avails than... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...40 Ver. 19. Of my incessant prayers] So, in Par. Lost, B.'xi. 307. " And, if by prayer " Incessant I could hope to change the will " Of him who all things can, I would not cease . 12. Thee will I praise, O Lord my God, Thee honour and adore With my whole heart, and blaze... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or tuperior. If by prayer Inceuant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. Id. The Christians, who carried their religion through... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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 pray'r against his absolute decree No more avails than... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...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 - 1834 - 498 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. MO But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails... | |
 | 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... | |
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