 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 1995 - Страниц: 216
...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,... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - 1998 - Страниц: 300
...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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - Страниц: 686
...Paradise Lost Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering: but of this be sure. To do aught rtson sole delight. 7553 Paradise Lost And out of good still to find means of evil. 7554 Paradise Lost What... | |
 | Richard Mervyn Hare - 1998 - Страниц: 258
...we take the case of Satan himself as Milton portrays him. He says: 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. 150 Suppose we ask 'How does Satan... | |
 | Owen Barfield - 1999 - Страниц: 236
...my meaning clear: Fall'n Cherube, to be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, To do ought 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. If then his Providence Out of... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 2001 - Страниц: 376
...[thus] repli'd. . . . fT]o 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. If then his Providence Out of... | |
 | Drew Williams - 2003 - Страниц: 340
...proud With vain attempt. Fallen Cherub to be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, To do ought 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. Paradise: Not Lost, Just Left... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - Страниц: 1012
...replied. Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable Doing or suffering: but of this be sure,0 To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, 160 As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out... | |
 | David Castronovo - 2004 - Страниц: 216
...prefer to nurse that tooth? Nabokov has made us say to ourselves, like Milton's Satan, that "to do aught good never will be our task, / But ever to do ill our sole delight." We're on Humbert's side — which is to say we're against cant and hot air of all kinds;... | |
 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - Страниц: 161
...rebel, as a defier of defeat. But Satan's grandness is ruined by his destructiveness: "To do aught good never will be our task, / But ever to do ill our sole delight" (1.159-60). Milton asks us to measure Satan by the yardstick of morality, not by attitude... | |
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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. 
