 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...  The alliance of musick, poetry & oratory - Page 267de Anselm Bayly - 1789 - 390 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...balance somewhat the absurdity of his descriptions: — What if earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like more than on earth is thought. He can only convey to us ideas of things in Heaven by clothing them in earthly garb ; he knows how... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth 575 Be 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 these heavens now roll, where Earth now... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...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 on earth is thought? As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where these heavens now roll, where earth now rests... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1860 - 436 pages
...VIEWS OF NATURE CONTAINED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. " What if earth Be bat the shadow of Heaven, and things therein, Each to other like ; more than on earth is thought." MILTOH. MANY persons may be disposed to concede the accurate delineation of natural facta open to human... | |
 | D R. M'Nab - 1860 - 296 pages
...Only the little brook has widened to a sea. TRENCH. What! if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein — Each to other like, more than on earth is thought. MILTON. Those— The archetypes of these. Oh, talk to me of heaven ! I love To hear about my home above... | |
 | Frederick William Briggs - 1861 - 334 pages
...but a type and counterpart of that which is spiritual, and earth is " But the shadow of heaven and things therein, Each to other like, more than on earth is thought :" — whatever the true interpretation may be, it is remarkable that the words we employ to represent... | |
 | Augustus Clissold - 1861 - 714 pages
...Milton is often forced upon their meditations, — ' What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven ; and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' " " Many," says Dean Trench, " are the sayings of a like kind among the Jewish Cabbalists. Thus... | |
 | William Lister - 1861 - 480 pages
...and ike New Earth."2 It does not reveal a 1 " Though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " Paradise Lost, v. 574. 2 While making this remark, I cannot but express regret at the title which... | |
 | John Parry - 1861 - 762 pages
...y nefoadd. Gofyna yr angel yn NyhoU Gu'ynja Milton, "Wbat if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought." Y mae y drychfeddwl hwn wedi amlygu ei hun 1 ddynion dwfu-feJJylgar yn mysg luddewon, paganiaid, aChri<tionogion.... | |
 | John Mair - 1861 - 322 pages
...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; tho' what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein, Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" An evening meal in heaven, the arch-angel thus describes : Could the Lord's supper have been in the... | |
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