 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good 570 This is dispens'd ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate...best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow' of heav'n, and things therein 575 Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...dark ages of the Church. 'l"hc reasoning of Milton on this subject throws great light on a passage ID Paradise Lost, put into the mouth of Raphael : ' What...resemblance between things in Heaven and things, in Earth than is generally imagined, and supposes it may have been intended as an a|x>logy for the bold... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good This is dispens'tl ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate...though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and tilings therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought? " As yet this world was not, and... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 688 pages
...VoL L p. 244. WP may new «ее what he intended by the speech he put into the mouth of Raphael : " what if earth, Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?" The efficiency of God next occupies his attention, which he divides into internal and external.... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 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 580 Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ' As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd... | |
 | Bible - 1827 - 294 pages
...perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good This is dispensed; and what surmounts the reach 571 Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where these Heavens now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...conjecture not improbable, however different from the common belief of the world. " What if earth Bo but the shadow of Heaven and things therein, Each to other like more than on earth is thought ? " men may be united together in such communities as have been now imagined ; perhaps united with... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal? yet for thy good This is dispens'd ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them hest ; though what if earth Be hut the shadow' of heaven, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1830 - 622 pages
...correspondence as gives very strong reason for believing that the author of one is the author of both. ' What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' The argument, indeed, does not amount to proof, but to presumption. It is as though the parentage... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1830 - 620 pages
...correspondence as gives very strong reason for believing that the author of one is the author of both. ' What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' The argument, indeed, does not amount to proof, but to presumption. It is as though the parentage... | |
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This is dispensed ; 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 Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than... 
