 | John Milton - 1903 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | Oscar Kuhns - Comparative literature - 1904 - 308 pages
...performance of man's duty to know the exact truth of all these theories of celestial motions,— Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above, him serve and fear,— cially preachers, who neglect the plain and simple lessons of the Gospel in order... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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 - Religion - 1991 - 450 pages
...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 - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...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... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - Didactic drama, English - 1981 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Ana M. Acosta - Religion - 2006 - 234 pages
...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... | |
 | Tinani Van Niekerk - 2007 - 53 pages
...cross. To illuminate and illustrate this he quotes Raphael's adivice to Adam (Craig, p.6): 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... | |
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