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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. "
Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost - Page xxi
by Jonathan Richardson - 1734 - 546 pages
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Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's Irony

Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...chief intended busines, to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happinesse. 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...
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives

Mary Arshagouni Papazian - History - 2003 - 406 pages
...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 or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal" (666). Not surprisingly,...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...his 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 or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. If he shall think to be...
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives

Mary Arshagouni Papazian - History - 2003 - 406 pages
...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 or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal" (666). Not surprisingly,...
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Milton: Paradise Lost

David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...and ecclesiastical reform, he too may have to utter odious truths in "sharp, but saving words," for "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" (YP 1:802-4). This would...
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The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment

George Anastaplo - Law - 2005 - 918 pages
...1954), p. 183, n. 26. The New Testament attitude is perpetuated in such passages as these by Milton: "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." The Prose Works of John...
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