| John Milton - Education - 1928 - 408 pages
...Regained (1671). God hath now sent His living Oracle Into the world to teach His final will; And sends His Spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.2 From Paradise Lost (1667). He ended; and thus Adam last replied: 'How soon... | |
| John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...thee mute. God hath now sent his living Oracle 4&> Into the World, to teach his final will, And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious Hearts, an inward Oracle To all truth requisite for men to know. So spake our Saviour; but the suttle Fiend, 465 Though inly stung with anger... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...find thee mute. God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the world to teach his final will. And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know." So spake our Saviour; but the subtle Fiend, Though inly stung with anger... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...find thee mute. God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the World, to teach his final will, And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious Hearts, an inward Oracle To all truth requisite for men to know. [1.455-64] The firm and quiet manner of these lines, dignified, yet modest,... | |
| Leonard Mustazza - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 188 pages
...human beings: God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the World to teach his final will, And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward Oracle To all truth requisite for men to know. (1.460-64) The concept of the "oracle within" accords well with the internalization... | |
| Paul Auster - Fiction - 1990 - 388 pages
...shape." And had God not "now sent his living Oracle / into the World to teach his final will, / And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell / in pious Hearts, an inward Oracle / To all Truth requisite for me to know"? And, because of Christ, did the fall not have a happy outcome, was it not... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...thee mute. God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the World, to teach hisjinal will, And sends bis Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious Hearts, an inward Oracle To all truth requisite for men to know. So Spake our Saviour; hut the subtle Fiend, Though inly flung with anger... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...God hath now seni his living Oracle 460 Inio the world to teach his final will, And sends his Spirii of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.' So spake our Saviour; but the subde Fiend, Though inly stung with anger... | |
| Andrew Shifflett - History - 1998 - 196 pages
...find thee mute. God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the World to teach his final will, And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious Hearts, an inward Oracle To all truth requisite for men to know. (1.430-64) God's Word silences Satan's oracles. They are as "dumb" as the... | |
| Paul Maltby - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 196 pages
...following lines: "God hath now sent his living Oracle Into the world, to teach his final will, And sends his Spirit of Truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know." (1.460-464) And, in his sermon, "A Divine and Supernatural Light . . .... | |
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