 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...and worldly wise By simply meek ; that suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life ; Taught...his example, whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest. To whom thus also the angel last replied : This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...and worldly wise By simply meek ; that suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, blest. EVE TO ADAM. .... WITH sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep. But now lead on ;... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...and worldly-wise By simply meek ; that suffering for Truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life — Taught...his example whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest." To whom thus also the Angel last replied: — " This having ledrned, thou hast attained the... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 pages
...strong, 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; Taught...his example whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest (12. 561-73). Adam, now repentant, is making his great profession of faith. From the bitter experience... | |
 | Galbraith Miller Crump - 1975 - 196 pages
...the Conqueror whom he must "now/Of force believe Almighty," but Adam sees that Death will be merely the "Gate of Life" Taught this by his example whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest. (XII. 572-73) Adam's acceptance elicits from Michael the assurance that if Adam adds faith to... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...the Last Judgment, summarizes his folly ("to obey is best") and formally converts to Christianity: "Taught this by his example whom I now / Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest" (12.572-573). At this point, the summit toward which these lessons have been climbing, Michael... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - 1789 - 402 pages
...and worldly wife By ftmply meek ; that fuffering for truth's fake Is fortitude to higheft victory, And to the faithful, death the gate of life : Taught...his example whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blcft. Thus Milton concludes with a confeffion of his belief, reducing fcience to its proper fize,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...strong, and worldly wise By simply meek; that suffering for Truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful Death the Gate of Life; Taught...his example whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest. (12.552-73) From first to last, this poised and gracious response to the divine is firmly emplaced... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 pages
...strong, and worldly wise By simply meek; that suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life; Taught...his example whom I now Acknowledge my redeemer ever blest. (12.561-73) Critics as different as Northrop Frye and Christopher Hill warn us not to confuse... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...strong, 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; Taught this by his example whom ! now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest. (557-73) In effect, Adam becomes a Christian here; he lays... | |
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... observe His providence; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things... 
