 The lower still I fall ; only supreme In misery : such joy ambition finds. But say I could repent, and could obtain By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore ! Ease would...  A New and old evangelical magazine - Page 1701846Full view - About this book
 | Sten Bodvar Liljegren - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 220 pages
...But say I could repent and could obtaine By Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission...would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep : Which would... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...sceptre high advanced, 90 The lower still I fall, onlv supreme In misery: such joy ambition finds! But say I could repent, and could obtain, By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would hightb recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! Ease would recant Vows made... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...sceptre high advanced, 90 The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery: such joy ambition finds! But say I could repent, and could obtain, By act of...Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void (For never can... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...and Sceptre high advanc'd The lower still I fall, only Supreme In misery, such joy Ambition finds. But say I could repent and could obtain By Act of...Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign 'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy ambition finds! 5 But say I could repent, and could obtain By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore ! Ease would recant Vows... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...By Aft of Grace my former slate; how soon Would highth recalhigh thoughts, how soon unsay Whatfeignd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep: Which would... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery : such joy ambition finds ! But say I could repent, and could obtain, By act of grace, my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore I Ease would recant Vows made in... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...sceptre1 high advanc'd, The lower still I fall ; only supreme In misery : such joy Ambition finds. 216 But say I could repent, and could obtain, By act of grace, my former state, — how soon Would height recal high thoughts ? how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore ? Ease would recant Vows... | |
 | Thomas F. Merrill - Christianity in literature - 1976 - 206 pages
...consequence of Satan's own proud recalcitrance which we as fallen men can understand and even share? "But say I could repent and could obtain / By Act of Grace my former state," Satan postulates, "how soon / Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay / What feign'd submission... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...envision a circumstance in which his saying would successfully issue in doing: false intentions intervene. But say I could repent and could obtain By Act of...would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. (IV. 93-97) In another violation of felicitous conditions, Satan only imagines repenting his repentence.... | |
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