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" Whereto with speedy words the arch-fiend replied. ' Fall'n cherub, to be weak is miserable Doing or suffering ; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom... "
Original double acrostics [signed A.B.]. - Page 122
by Anne Bowman - 1866
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...Cherub ! to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering ; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight,...being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...miserable, Doing or suffering : but of this be sure, To do ought good never will he our task, 1'u! ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...cherub, to be weak is miserable Doing or suffering ; but of this be sure, To do aught good never -will + If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...Cherub ! to be weak is miserable Doing or suffering : but of this he sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight,...being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...Cherub ! to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering : but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task ; But ever to do ill our sole delight,...being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labor must be to pervert that...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...the vault of Heaven. Miltoiis Paradise Lost, b. 1. But of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight,...being the contrary to His high will, Whom we resist. Ibid. The happier state In Heav'n, which follows dignity, might draw Envy from each inferior ; but...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering : but of this be sure, To do aught good never will h' Hesperian fields, And contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth...
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English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from ...

George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pages
...dangerous members of society, and are ever preaching up resistance to constituted authorities ; To do all our sole delight As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resitt. MILTON. ' Particular instances of second sight have been given with such evidence, as neither...
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The Religious Monitor, and Evangelical Repository, Volume 3

1827 - 600 pages
...involve all in the same wretchedness with himself, "But of this be sure, To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being contrary to his high will Whom we resist." Such is our formidable foe, and well may we ask how are...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 18

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...liberty to do eril, meeting with the mittibility of this sufficient grace, that one resist* it. Hammond. To do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we mitt. Milton. All at once to force misttea way. Id. That is irresistible ; this, though potent, yet...
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