 | Samuel Noble - New Jerusalem Church - 1830 - 266 pages
...heaven is an idea of a mere nothing. Thus the angel Raphael is made to say, in Milton's Paradise Lost, " 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 Se lut the shadow of heaven, and things... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - English language - 1831 - 264 pages
...proposes to overcome the difficulty in the only way in which it can be conceived possible to be overcome: —what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best. PAR. LOsT. Book 5. 1. 563. Still must the discourse of the Angel have been unintelligible to Adam:... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good 575 This is dispensed ; 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... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...World beyond world, In infinite extent, Profusely scatter'd o'er the blue immense." — THOMSON. ' What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " Pir. Lout. Book V. 1. .-.71. IT is not absolutely necessary for us to be acquainted, while in this... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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 best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1833 - 250 pages
...sighed to awake to the remembrance that we were not made to be the tenants of such heavenly scenery." •'What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' " " Well," said Miss Phrebe, after a pause which to some of the party was awkward, and to others... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 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...them 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... | |
 | 1837 - 830 pages
...that in all probability the life to come does not differ wholly in kind from the present. What ¡Г earth Be but the shadow of heaven and things therein Each to other like more lhan on earth is thought ? Por. Loa. В. V. SONNETS то *»»***. Strange doth it seem that in so... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual lo corporal forms, As may express them best ; though...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... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 440 pages
...state, was buried at the Swedish church neai U;uU cliffe Highway.— TK. f " "What if earth Be hut Ihe shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought 1" MILTOB. — TK. chosen emblem of such principles and such science as this. This is stark nonsense!... | |
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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... 
