 Who, from the terror of this arm, so late Doubted his empire — that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3801852Full view - About this book
 | 1878
...since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail — Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse in foresight much advanced 120 We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1879 - 113 pages
...event, In arms not worse, in foresight mnch advanced, We may with more snccessful hope resolve 120 To wage, by force or guile, eternal war, Irreconcilable...heaven." So spake the apostate angel, though in pain, 125 Vaunting alond, bnt racked with deep despair : glory. This may refer to what precedes, and mean... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 460 pages
...since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight...hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the... | |
 | Baptists - 1861
...fate the strength of gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail: Since through experience of this event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced,...of joy, Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heaven." t * Sh. Turner's Anglo-Saxons, Amer. ed., p. 573. t Book I. Vol. xxvii—40 The amount of Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | England - 1852
...the strength of gods And this empyreal substance caunot fail ; Since, through experience of thisgreat event,— In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced,...eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who now trinmphs, and in the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyrauny of heaven. So spake the apostate... | |
 | Martin Buzacott - Performing Arts - 1991 - 180 pages
...revolution and its instrument, terrorism, eventuate, as fallen archangels resolve with Milton's Satan, To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable...the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heaven.15 Terrorist actions begin at this moment when the debate surrounding authority is exhausted,... | |
 | A. B. Chambers - Literary Criticism - 2010
...All is not lost" (PL, 1.105-6), especially not "courage never to submit or yield" (108). Therefore, "We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal War" (120-21). "What matter where, if I be still the same" (256)? In the mock-epic version (307-10), Broken... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 601 pages
...event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve 120 To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable, to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.' 'O Prince, O Chief of many throned Powers... | |
 | 顏元叔 - English literature - 2002 - 770 pages
...since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight...Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy, Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven. [I, 106-124] If I could joy in aught—... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Epic poetry, English - 1999 - 166 pages
..."through experience of this great event," we have lost nothing in arms and have gained in "foresight": We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe. (I, i2off) It even has a nice internal cross-bolstering: the... | |
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