 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 205 pągines
...35 [1938]: 263). Milton's concept of the active life is revealed in his own words and actions: "But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in mans will what he shall say or what he shall conceal" (RCG 3:231). His response to that command, says... | |
 | Turner James Grantham, David Loewenstein, James Turner, James Hrantham Turner - 1990 - 282 pągines
...it begins, because Milton has just made the far larger claim that God Himself has "command[ed him] to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast." His own will, consequently, dissolves into a higher authority. Indeed, so many of the "high" criteria... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 284 pągines
...chief intended business, to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own pure happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. (Complete Prose Works, 1:803) The prophet's role is to be impatient with periodic reforms, and as Isaiah... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 1539 pągines
...with' (229). According to Milton's best light, the times seemed to demand prose, not poetry. Moreover, 'when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal' (231). However distasteful further pamphleteering might prove, Milton's conscience would not allow... | |
 | Dennis Danielson - 1999 - 297 pągines
...Near the beginning of The Reason of Church-Government, he explains that he is personally hesitant: But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in mans will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. If he shall think to be silent, as Jeremiah... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001
...must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands ; * * * but when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say and what he shall conceal."* That my complaints, both in this and in my former Lay Sermon, concerning... | |
 | James L. Machor, Philip Goldstein, Professor of English Philip Goldstein - 2001 - 393 pągines
...1642, he had declared, "When God commands to take the trumpet, and hlow a dolorous and jarring hlast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal" lComplete Pruse Works, i. 8031. Now, in 1645 he discovers just how jarring was the hlast he unwittingly... | |
 | Doerksen, Daniel W., Shami, Jeanne, Johnson, Jeffrey, Frontain, Raymond-Jean - 2003 - 385 pągines
...challenge to episcopacy in terms of a revelation brought about by a divinely commanded trumpet call: "But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal" (666). Not surprisingly, once Donne overcame his doubts concerning ordination, he regularly presented... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 966 pągines
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. If he shall think to be silent as Jeremiah0 did, because of the reproach and derision he met with daily,... | |
 | Doerksen, Daniel W., Shami, Jeanne, Johnson, Jeffrey, Frontain, Raymond-Jean - 2003 - 385 pągines
...challenge to episcopacy in terms of a revelation brought about by a divinely commanded trumpet call: "But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal" (666). Not surprisingly, once Donne overcame his doubts concerning ordination, he regularly presented... | |
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But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. 
