 | Anselm Bayly - 402 pages
...heaven Is as a book of God before thee fet, Wherein to read his wond'rous works, and learn His feafons, hours, or days, or months, or years. This to attain, whether heaven move, or earth, Imports not, if thou reckon right ; the reft From man, or angel, the great Architect Did wifely to... | |
 | Richard Braverman - 1993 - 366 pages
...Minnesota Press, 1942), 9-22. 48 Paradisi Lost, VII:80-87. To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to...Days, or Months, or Years: This to attain, whether Heav'n move or Earth, Imports not, if thou reck'n right; the rest From Man or Angel the great Architect... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 pages
...conventional vision of nature in his words to Adam: "To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n / Is as the Book of God before thee set. / Wherein to...Days, or Months, or Years: / This to attain, whether Heav'n move or Earth, / Imports not. if thou reck'n right; the rest / From Man or Angel the great Architect... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
...The Archangel, no antirationalist, graciously replies, To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wond'rous Works but he adds, whether Heav'n move or Earth, Imports not, if thou reck'n right. (8.64-8, 70-1) Raphael's... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 pages
...etymological cousins make his demand doubly insistent). The opening words of Raphael's response to Adam - "To ask or search I blame thee not, for heaven / Is as the book of God before thee set" (PL, vn1. 66-67) - are so familiar that one may easily overlook the fact that ask and search have no... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...doubt propos'd Benevolent and facile thus repli'd. 65 To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to...Days, or Months, or Years: This to attain, whether Heav'n move or Earth, 70 Imports not, if thou reck'n right; the rest From Man or Angel the great Architect... | |
 | Edgar A. Dryden - 2004 - 256 pages
...restrain his curiosity concerning the secrets of creation. To ask or search I blame thee not, for Heav'n Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to...Days, or Months, or Years; This to attain, whether Heav'n move or Earth, Imports not, if thou reck'n right; the rest From Man or Angel the great Architect... | |
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To ask or search, I blame thee not ; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works... 
