 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
 | Leonard Mustazza - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 188 pages
...necessary for reconciliation, but he is not quite aware of God's part in the arrangement. When Satan says "But say I could repent and could obtain / By Act of Grace my former state" (93—94), he shows that he does not understand how theological grace operates. "Act of Grace" to Satan... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 580 pages
...soul." Allston fears the resurgence of what he had recanted, like Satan in Book IV of Paradise Lost. ("But say I could repent and could obtain / By act...how soon unsay / What feign'd submission swore.") Satan rules out any thought of repentance, but in "The Atonement" Allston turns this compulsive tendency... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...resistance—precisely the position asserted by those who favored penal laws against the colonists: But say I could repent and could obtain By Act of...would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void, For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep: This knows... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...and Sceptre high advanc'd yo 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 us What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and 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 grace my former state; how soon0 Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore: ease would recant... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...obtain By Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay 95 What feign'd 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 pierc'd so deep: Which would... | |
 | Alison Keith, Stephen Rupp, Stephen James Rupp - Ovide moralisé (Poem) - 2007 - 358 pages
...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" (4.93-97). Satan resists the possibility for character development and growth that we glimpse, even... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 313 pages
...true ethical state, but his counselling voice disguises the despair-creating power of its arguments: But say I could repent and could obtain By act of...thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore. (IV.93— 6) Though AJA Waldock sees in the soliloquy a Satan 'who now begins to unsay all that the... | |
 | James Dougal Fleming - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 228 pages
...and could obtaine / By Act of Grace my former state," he hypothesizes: how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission...would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. ... Which would but lead me to a worse relapse. And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare Short... | |
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