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 122by Anne Bowman - 1866Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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