...that he cannot recapture the past, to un-do and re-do it, he tries to seize control of change itself. What though the field be lost: All is not lost; the...submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? (I. 105-09) These words are fraught with telling contradictions. "Having lost, I refuse to lose; having...

...rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end (Bk. I, 1. 61-67) 51 the earth are the Lord's and he hath set the world upon them. (Bk. I, 1. 105-109) 52 In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc't. We may with more successful hope...

...dislike his reign, and, me preferring, His utmost power with adverse power opposed In dubious batde on the plains of Heaven, And shook his throne. What...overcome. That glory never shall his wrath or might 1 10 Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who, from the...

...shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all. 7550 Paradise Lost ... 7551 Paradise Lost Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair. 7552 Paradise Lost Fallen cherub,...

...That with the mightiest raised me to contend, And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits armed That durst dislike his reign,...power opposed In dubious battle: on the plains of heav'n, And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will,...

...English poet, too, like Byron, — in the Satan of Milton ? .... What though the field be lost ? AH is not lost ; the unconquerable will, And study of...submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome. There, surely, speaks a genius to whose composition the Celtic fibre was not wholly a stranger ! And...

...In dubious Battle on the Plains of Heav'n, And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? 105 All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study...overcome? That Glory never shall his wrath or might no Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror...

...god- Son of God" (III, 309) and entitles him And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? 105 All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study...overcome? That Glory never shall his wrath or might HO Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror...

...cited in Gay, Survol de la litterature canadienne-franfaise, 180. 8 Ibid., 180. The full quotation is: 'What though the field be lost? / All is not lost;...or yield: / And what is else not to be overcome?' The lines constitute a central parainesis in Satan's first speech (Paradise Lost 1.105-9). 9 Gay, Survol...

...That with the mightiest raised me to contendAnd to the fierce contention brought along 100 Innumerable force of spirits armed That durst dislike his reign,...adverse power opposed In dubious battle on the plains of heaven,0 And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will,...