 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...  A First Sketch of English Literature - Page 620by Henry Morley - 1873 - 914 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Richardson - Biography - 1734 - 756 pages
...to Adam in Paradife before Sin and Death entered, V. 574. -what if Earth be but the Shadow ofHeav'n, and things therein Each to Other Like More than on Earth is thought? 553 Howfcon hath thy Prediction, Seer Bleft, the Prophets are SocalPd, as 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 1, and Eliewhere.... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...fpiritual to corporal forms, As may exprefs them beft, though what if earth Be but the fhadow of heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world was not, and chaos wtlde [refts Reign'd where thefeheav'n's now rowl, where earth... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - Music - 1789 - 424 pages
...likening fpiritual to corporeal forms, As may exprefs them beft ; though what if earth Be but the fhadowof heaven, and things therein • Each to other like, more than on earth is thought} Our language, as enriched from the Latin and Greek, abounds with metaphors ; *ve have already taken... | |
 | Anselm Bayly - Literary Criticism - 1789 - 402 pages
...to corporeal forms, As may exprefs them beft } though what if earth Be but the fhadowof heaven, anil things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? Our language, as enriched from the }L,atin and Greek, abounds with metaphors ; we have already taken... | |
 | Charles Louis de VILLETTE - Future life - 1793 - 196 pages
... HAPPINESS THE LIFE TO COME, What if Earth Be but the lhadow of Heaven» and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought. MILTON. BATH, PRINTED BY R. CRUTTWELL; AND SOLO II If T. CADELL, STRAND, AND C. DILLY, FOOLTRY, LONDON,... | |
 | 1794 - 614 pages
...advanced. The translator's motto is, in the words of our great pott, "What if Earth Be but the (hadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought!" Art. 43. The True Churchman ; being a general, free, and difpafiionate Enquiry into- the Propriety... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...fpiritual to corporal forms, As may exprefs them heft ; though what if Earth Be hut the fhadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world was not, and Cluus wild Reign d where thefe Heav'ne now roll, where Earth now refts... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth Be but the shadow' f Heav'n, and things therein Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought '• As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reigu'd where these Heav'ns now roll, where Earth *... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...spiritual to corp'ral forms, As may express them best : tho' what if Earth Be but the shadow' of Heav'n, 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 Heav'ns now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
 | Edward King - Bible - 1800 - 542 pages
...exprefied by Milton, Book V. 1- 575 ' — — — — though what if Earth Be but the Oiadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? And we find the fame fentiment burfting from the mouth of Cicero in his Timseus, Sed. II. Non igitur... | |
| |
