 All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously...  A Manual of English Literature - Page 398by Henry Morley - 1879 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 pages
...number thee with those Whom patience finally must crown.1 All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings about,...champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent ; His servants He with new... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 234 pages
...number thee with those Whom patience finally must crown.1 All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings about,...champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent ; His servants He with new... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 104 pages
...captivity and loss of eyes. Chorus. All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose 1745 Of highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found...returns ; And to his faithful champion hath in place 1750 Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...its expression in fourteen lines, rhymed in sonnet-style: All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about,...Champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His uncontroulable intent, His servants he with new acquist... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 pages
...nuptial choice, From whence captivity and loss of eyes. CHORUS All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about,...Champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His uncontroulable intent; His servants he with new acquist... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...survives, A secular bird ages of lives. (1. 1695-1707) 118 All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I...friends hid in death's dateless night And weep afresh lo Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His uncontroulable intent, His servants he with new acquist... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...ft, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Ofhighesl wisdom brings about, And ever beft found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face,...Champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resisJ His uncontroulable intent, His servants he with new acquisl... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Quartets. Cf . the final chorus of Milton's Samson Agonistes: "All is best, though we oft doubt, / What th' unsearchable dispose / Of highest wisdom brings about / And ever best found in the close" (1745-48). 18. For fuller discussions of the tradition of a "Christian Adam," see Patrides, Christian... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 pages
...form in much the same way as he has for the dramatic form: All is best, though we oft doubt, What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about,...Champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His uncontroulable intent; His servants he with new acquist... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 pages
...doctrine from the world, the hazards in this instance of religious partisanship and tribal nationalism. All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable...faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously. (1745-52) From their perspective, the Chorus's sentiment that "All is best" following the apparent... | |
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