 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 Seiten
...replied. Fallen 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, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of... | |
 | 1822 - 696 Seiten
...farewell fear, Fztrewell remorse : all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. iv. And To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, iv." But Lucifer does all this, and more than this ; he is transformed into the semblance... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...arch-fiend replied : ' "Fallen Cherub ! to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffbring : but of this be sure. To do ought good never will be our task ; But ever to do ill our sole delight : 160 AB being the contrary to hie high will Whom we resist. It then his providence Out... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...Arch-Fiend replied. Fall'n Cherub, to be weak is miserable Doing or suffering: but of this be sure, To do ought good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, 150 As be'ing the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...reply'd: Fall'n Cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering : but of this be sure, To do aught over Adria to th' Hesperian fields, And sole delight, As being contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...defiance toward 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, As being the contrary to His high will, Whom we resist. Ibid. The happier state In Heav'n,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 Seiten
...do ill excites.] So in PL i. 159. Satan says to his infernal compeer, —of this be sure To do aught good never will be our task ; But ever to do ill our sole delight. Dunster. 426. With all inflictions ? but his patience won.] So Mr. Fenton points this... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 Seiten
...Satan, in Par. Lost, B. i. 1 59, in his first conference with his infernal compeer, says " TO do. aught good never will be our task ; " But ever to do ill our sole delight." DUNSTER. Ver. 426. • but his patience won.] The verb •won Dr. Newton thinks is not... | |
 | 1827 - 600 Seiten
...his power to destroy it, to 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 Seiten
...part but the hare English pale, in which the Irish have not the greatest fooling. Spenfcr on Ireland. To do ought good never will be our task ; But ever to do ill our sole delight. Milton. Universal Lord ! be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have... | |
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Fallen 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 we resist. 
