 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...  Œuvres complètes - Page 350de François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 296 pages
...dispens'd ; 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,575 Each to other like, more than on earth is thought * "As yet this world was not, and Chaos... | |
 | Job Durfee (Class of 1813) - 1849 - 562 pages
...REASON, RESOLVED INTO ITS OBJECTIVE ALL j SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL. "What if earth Be hut the dhadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" THAT God is present to every human soul, is a truth which all admit. That He is present within, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 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...thought? " As yet this world was not; and Chaos wild Reign 'd where these heavens now roll, where earth Upon her centre pois'd; when on a day, [now rests... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1850 - 90 pages
...only unsuitable to the dignity of the epic, but closely neighbouring on vulgarity. Book V., 1. 574. Though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven,...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought. I believe that the Astrologers, with whom Milton sometimes condescended to associate, held this notion,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...a contrast of this life. In the language of the noblest of Christian poets, "What if Earth Be but a shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?"'3 Thus, brethren, the gospel teaches us, as the author of Ecclesiastes, not a direct assurance... | |
 | John Beebe - 1992 - 200 pages
...his account of the war in heaven with the question, . . . what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought? — Paradise Lost, V (lines 574-76) See William G. Madsen, "Earth the Shadow of Heaven: Typological... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...tabernacles, and pavilions, all mysteriously meant, "though what if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein / Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" (5.574-76). On earth, such things are burdens and distortions of nature's beauty when they are effects... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...1 shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best - I ho ugh what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought? Reigned where these Heavens now roll, where Earth now rests Upon her centre poised, when on a day (For... | |
 | Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson - 1995 - 260 pages
...live, of life. what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best, though what...therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?35 Although in Milton's understanding the distance between the extremes is perhaps greater... | |
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