 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...Arch-fiend replied : " 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; 1 60 " As being the contrary to his high will, " Whom we resist. If then his providence " Out of our... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Arch-fiend replied: — 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; IIH As being the contrary to his high will, Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1865 - 182 pages
...IX. — As or than sometimes joins a word or phrase to a clause, in stead of connecting two clauses. But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will. — Milton. Words can sometimes be supplied after the infinitive, so a* to make two clause* ; as, "... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1865 - 350 pages
...A participle sometimes relates to a preceding pkrcae or sentence, of which it forma no part ; as, " But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will." — .'Milton. EXCEPTION SECOND. With an infinitive denoting being or action in the abstract, a participle... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1866 - 208 pages
...grove its current brings, Plays on the slope awhile." 5 " Of this be sure, To do aught good, will never be our task, But ever to do ill, our sole delight;...being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist." (j Floating along like a winged song, The traveller-bee would stop, And choose for his bower this favourite... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 278 pages
...powers engage in a battle to thwart one another's designs. Satan declares his selfish motive early on: To do aught good never will be our task, But ever...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... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - History - 1992 - 308 pages
...response to Beelzebub's caution exposes a completely corrupted will choosing evil for the sake of evil: To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight. As being contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his Providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth... | |
 | William A. Senior - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 300 pages
...Milton's Satan, with whom Foul has much in common, defines such a strategy: To do aught good will never 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... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...(9:129-30, 475-79). It is this compulsive need to destroy that dictates his goals from the outset: To do aught good never will be our task. But ever to do ill our sole delight As being contrary to his high will Whom we resist. (1:159-63) And he persists, paradoxically, knowing lull well... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...Will and Study of Revenge, immortal Hate and Courage never to submit or yield &c. Of this be sure, to do aught good never will be our Task, but ever to do ill our Sole Delight' &c though he did add that he thought this 'rather too frolick some and triumphant for the Times, which... | |
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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. 
