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 851798Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1873 - 606 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 criea. But prayer against His absolute decree No more... | |
| John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 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 \No more avails than breath against the... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...places else 1 uhospitable 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 : sio But prayer against His absolute decree... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...innocent, and to their thoughts Firm peace recover'd soon, and wonted calm. MILTON. If by pray'r 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. But that from us aught should ascend... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear and desolate, ISTor 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 ]SFo... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...places else Inhospitable appear, and desolate ; Nor knowing us, nor known : and, if by prayer Incessant suffer it to be printed without this acknowledgment. The r I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries : But prayer against his absolute decree No... | |
| John Milton - 1877 - 450 pages
...Familiar to our eyes , all places elfe Inhofpitable appeer and defolate, Nor knowing us nor known : and if by prayer Inceflant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not ceafe To wearie him with my afliduous cries : But prayer againft his abfolute Decree No... | |
| 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 e I would not i To weary Him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against His absolute decree No more... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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