 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
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...r»u« By all the feasts on earth since their foundation. 2825. PRAYER. Limit to IF by prayer Incessant And the mild light of her sweet face is mirrored ¡a the eyes of her c i To weary Him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against His absolute decree No more avails than... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...ces else Inhospitable appear and der-olate, 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 iibsoliite decree Ho more avails... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 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... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...PARADISE LOST. Inhospitable appear and desolate, Nor knowing us nor known; and if by prayer Incessant fered much for thee ; What canst thou bear for me ? And I have brought cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 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 - 1881 - 738 pages
...unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. Sh. 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 eries : But pray'r against his absolute deeree No more avails... | |
 | John Milton - Fore-edge painting - 1881 - 528 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 ean, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous eries : But prayer against his absolute deeree... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...pray, let me Interpret for him. r. MILTON — Paradise !¿>st. Bk. XI. Line 31. If by pray'r Incessant how rare The hours that fall to Virtue's share ! /. SCOTT— Rokeby. C cease To weary Him with my assiduous crie«. a. MILTON— Paradise JMSÍ. Bk. XI. Lim- 307. Sighs now... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...still remember what the Lord hath done. 3987 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 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 prayer against his absolute decree No more avaiis... | |
 | B. P. Moore - American fiction - 1885 - 334 pages
...Edgar, who was much honored for his great success. CHAPTER XVI. WORKING TO REST. 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. — Milton's Paradise Loit. THE season of revival had its... | |
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