 Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in His presence, ever to observe His providence, and on Him sole depend...  A System of English Grammar - Page 94by Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 pages
...decade of the Restoration, and condemned to the internal exile of his blindness.1 Henceforth I leam, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only...and by small Accomplishing great things, by things deemed weak Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise By simply meek; that suffering for truth's... | |
 | James Turner - 1993 - 368 pages
...history. Adam translates this vision into profound but somewhat prosaic lessons in proper conduct: "Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, / And love...observe / His providence, and on him sole depend" (12:561-4). Michael approves Adam's homily, and pledges that subjection of the self to rules of ethical... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1993 - 372 pages
...potential causes within oneself: Henceforth I learne, that to obey is best, And love with fear the onely God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend, Mercifull over all his works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things,... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 pages
...alternative to true heroism. True heroism, as stated in a memorable passage in Paradise Lost, impels one ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend,...Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise By simply meek. (12.563-71) This assessment is best comprehended in connection with the formulation in Book 12 of the... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 pages
..."Unfeared Second Fate": Satan and the Critique of Meliorism, Paradise Lost, Book 2 CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love...to observe His providence, and on him sole depend, ... that suffering for Truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful Death the... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...which was my folly to aspire. Henceforth I leame, that to obey is best. And love with fear the onely God. to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend. MercifulI over all his works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...'possess a paradise within'. In order to do so, he must learn what Adam learned, what the epic teaches: that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in His presence, ever to observe Hts providence, and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil,... | |
 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 pages
...on incongruity, which Adam recognizes after Michael's explicit descriptions of the world's future: and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise By simply meek. The model thus affirms that no order within Paradise Lost is static, and that, most importantly, free... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...Lost. Sadder but wiser after his visionary preview of human history, Adam confesses that he sees now that "to obey is best, / And love with fear the only God," and the Archangel Michael replies, This having learnt, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom; hope no... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 pages
...angels in heaven, of the reconciliation between Adam and Eve, of Adam's final recital of his lesson: with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing...and worldly wise By simply meek; that suffering for Truths sake Is fortitude to highest victorie, And to the faithful Death the Gate of Life. (XII, 5651!)... | |
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