...unsay What feigned submission swore! Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void (For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep); Which would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall : so should I purchase dear Short intermission,...

...much to widen and to intensify. The severance, it is to be feared, will be a final severance, for, never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. The parochial system, with all its inestimable advantages to Church and State, will have disappeared,...

...idea that Milton "wisely expresses" (Paine is too honest to attribute the notion to Milton himself), "Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep." Paine is citing, approvingly, Satan's rejection of any reconciliation with God.89 This was a familiar...

...crystallizes his opposition to the restoration of former conditions by means of a quotation from Milton, "Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep." Strange to say, not a single one of Paine's editors or commentators on his works until this day has...

...in Common Sense is none other than Satan, who speaks, though unnamed, from Milton's Paradise Lost: "never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep." Forgiveness is an unnatural feeling in this world. "There are injuries which nature cannot forgive;...

...quotation from Milton which Paine deploys to explain why America can never be reconciled to England: "never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep." It comes, not, as scholars had tended to assume, from Milton's prose works, but from Paradise Lost.97...

...security. Reconciliation is now a falacious dream. Nature hath deserted the connexion, and Art cannot supply her place. For, as Milton wisely expresses,...or confirms obstinacy in Kings more than repeated petitioning — and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the Kings of Europe...

...'Reconciliation', he urged the waverers of 1 776, 'is now a fallacious dream . . . For as Milton nicely expresses, "Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep"';22 and his gnomic condensation of social contract theory in the same pamphlet, though a commonplace...

...ways. I remember how the way my parents interacted with one another reminded me of Milton's words: "For never can true reconcilement grow / where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep," and I often wondered as a child why they continued to live together. Now I understand the reasons that...

...Murder, Violence, and Soul Murder "Did It Really Happen? " and a Note on Therapy Satan (near Eden): For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep: Which would but lead me to a worse relapse . . . All hope excluded thus, behold in stead Of us outcast,...