| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal r yet for thy good This is dispens'd ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corjioral forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to rcvtal ? yet for thy good 570 This is dispensed; 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 Bach to1 other like, more than on earth is thought ? tt As yet this... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...xxv. 40), and the question suggested by the angel in Milton is often forced upon their meditations : ' What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven ; and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought I ' A Roman Catholic writer in the CombUl Magazine, vol. 14, thus expresses himself : ' Here is a sentence... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...io, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms As may express them beit; though what if earth Be tut the shadow of heaven and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought.* Correspondences being established as a philosophical possibility, ancient history ought to demonstrate... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...form." They correspond to each other. Milton has placed the same truth before us in a poetical form — "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... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good This is dispens'd ; and Before him chasing indolence and crimes. Still as...his ray : Then Egypt, Greece, and Rome, their golden " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Keign'd where these Heavens now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...world, perhaps : Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good 570 This is diapcnsM ; and what surmounts tha reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As mhy express them best : tho' what if Earth 574 Be but the shadow' of Heav'n, and things therein, Each... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, Ey likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them best; though what if Earth...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 Upon... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good •-"•''• F2 This is dispens'd; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to coporal forms. As may express them best ; tho' what if earth 574 Be but the shadow of Heav'n. and things... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them hest ; though what if Earth Be hut 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 these Heavens now roll, where Earth now Upon... | |
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