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" 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,... "
The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 85
1798
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Le paradis perdu, Volume 1

John Milton - 1837 - 512 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 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. 310 But prayer against his absolute decree...
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Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ...

John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...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 310 " To weary him with my assiduous cries : " But prayer against his absolute decree...
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The sacred cabinet of literature and art. Pr

Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 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...
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Le Paradis perdu de J. Milton

John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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 Il se tut à ces mots ; car Adam , le cœur anéanti sous le coup de la profonde...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 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...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear, and desolate ; Nor knowing us, nor known : and, if by prayer Incessant both when we wake, and when we sleep : ' All these with c I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But prayer against his absolute decree No...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear and desolate, Nor knowing us, nor known : and if by prayer Incessant, through all the mighty poets roll, Who Greek or Latin laur I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But pray'r against his absolute decree No...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 1 To this — ie compared to this. 2 How shall we breathe, &c — The antithesis...
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The Spiritual Magazine, and Zion's Casket

Christian life - 1846 - 656 pages
...earlier measures — just as the sublime Milton here expresses it. — " 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...
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