 | John Milton - 1924 - 472 lehte
...inwardly I groan. While they adore me on the throne of Hell, With diadem and sceptre high advanced, 90 The lower still I fall, only supreme. In misery: such joy ambition finds ) But say I could repent, and <•<>!> M obtain, By act of grace, my former state ; how loon Would highth ret'al high thoughts, how... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 lehte
...torments inwardly I groan : While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With Diadem and Sceptre high advanc'd The lower still I fall, only Supreme In misery,...obtain By Act of Grace my former state ; how soon Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign 'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 lehte
...inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy ambition finds! 5 But say I could repent, and could obtain By act of grace my former state ; how soon Would height... | |
 | 1909 - 502 lehte
...inwardly I groan. While they adore me on the throne of Hell, With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery : such...obtain, By act of grace, my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore I Ease would recant Vows made... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 lehte
...torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of hell ! With diadem and sceptre1 high advanc'd, The lower still I fall ; only supreme In misery : such joy Ambition finds. 216 But say I could repent, and could obtain, By act of grace, my former state, — how soon Would... | |
 | Thomas F. Merrill - 1976 - 206 lehte
...consequence of Satan's own proud recalcitrance which we as fallen men can understand and even share? "But say I could repent and could obtain / By Act of Grace my former state," Satan postulates, "how soon / Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay / What feign'd submission... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 lehte
...envision a circumstance in which his saying would successfully issue in doing: false intentions intervene. But say I could repent and could obtain By Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - 1988 - 188 lehte
...necessary for reconciliation, but he is not quite aware of God's part in the arrangement. When Satan says "But say I could repent and could obtain / By Act of Grace my former state" (93—94), he shows that he does not understand how theological grace operates. "Act of Grace" to Satan... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 lehte
...soul." Allston fears the resurgence of what he had recanted, like Satan in Book IV of Paradise Lost. ("But say I could repent and could obtain / By act of grace my former state: how soon / Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay / What feign'd submission swore.") Satan rules out any... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 308 lehte
...resistance—precisely the position asserted by those who favored penal laws against the colonists: But say I could repent and could obtain By Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore: ease would recant Vows made... | |
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Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy... 
