| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal extinction of the enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish...vanity alive, Wilder'd, and tossing through diste lo other like, more than on Earth is thought ? 4 As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal s sovran will, the end Of what we are. But since thbu...veuchsaf 'd Gently, for our instruction, to impart other like, more than on Earth is thought? " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal s, when mild he shines And gilds the mountain tops.-...much the pack (Rous'd from their dark alcoves) deligh other like, more than on Eanh is thought ? " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best; though what if earth...but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where... | |
| Samuel Noble - 1845 - 564 pages
..." What surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them best : though what if earth...but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other Zi'Ac, more than on earth is thought."* In which striking lines he has exactly delineated the... | |
| 1846 - 586 pages
...the physical universe the greater analogy shall we find between things temporal and spiritual: "Wh&t if earth Be but the shadow of heaven and things therein, Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought !" We find that the Jewish people were continually instructed... | |
| Theophilus Parsons - 1847 - 196 pages
...laws, it is like our own. Milton was more than a poet, or rather he was truly a poet, when he says, Though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven and...Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ! And Wordsworth, true to the same poetic instinct, has the same idea in his Laodamia. He speaks of... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them best ; though, what if...Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein, 575 Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " As yet this world was not ; and Chaos wild... | |
| 1873 - 398 pages
...Peace, shall overspread, glorify and bless all lands. The prince of English poets significantly asks, " What if earth be but the shadow of heaven and things therein each to other like more than on earth is thought?" This scene of blended majesty and loveliness of dazzling... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein 680 Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd... | |
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