 | 1909 - 502 trang
...pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even. And bears thee soft with the smooth air along — Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid: Leave them to God above; him serve and fear. Of other creatures as him pleases best, Wherever placed, let him dispose; joy thou... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke - 1991 - 450 trang
...conservative Catholics: Whether the sun predominant in heaven Rise on the earth or earth rise on the sun . . . Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid: Leave them to God above, him serve and fear. ' So wrote John Milton in Paradise lost. Applying our test has generated complications... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - 1998 - 300 trang
...first, and his conversion is the main objective. It is as if at this stage Milton repeated his famous Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid. Leave them to God above, him serve and fear. (PL. v1n, 167-8) The decree of God then gives the general orientation; it rests on... | |
 | Nicholas Spadaccini, Jenaro Taléns - 1997 - 434 trang
...of Raphael's introductory excursus on cosmology and his traditional denunciation of vana curiositas: "Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, / Leave them to God above, him serve and fear" (Milton, Paradise Lost 8.167-168), words that certainly suggest a theological absolutism... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 trang
...teaching the virtue of noetic restraint just as Milton does with his reader in the Christian Doctrine: "Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, / Leave them to God above, him serve and fear . . . joy thou / In what he gives to thee, this Paradise / And thy fair Eve" (LM 8.167-72).... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 trang
...present moment (if not fallen experience) that increases the appeal of Raphael's passage for Johnson: Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above . . . . . .joy thou In what he gives to thee, this Paradise And thy fair Eve . . . (Paradise Lost,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 trang
...that spinning sleeps On her soft Axle, while she paces Ev'n, 165 And bears thee soft with the smooth Air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above, him serve and fear; Of other Creatures, as him pleases best, Wherever plac't, let him dispose: joy thou... | |
 | David Glimp - 2003 - 264 trang
...infinite ages and worlds, Raphael forecloses consideration of the issue with his famous injunction: Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above, him serve and fear; Of other Creatures, as him pleases best, Wherever plac't, let him dispose: joy thou... | |
 | Ana M. Acosta - 2006 - 234 trang
...outside. During one of his lessons, Adam asks about the world outside and Raphael promptly tells him to: Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above, him serve and fear; Of other Creatures, as him pleases best, Wherever plac't, let him dispose: joy thou... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 trang
...passages on science and learning in Paradise Lost lay down strict traditional limits to human knowledge: Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above, him serve and fear; . . . . . . heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think... | |
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