 | John Milton - 1809 - 494 pages
...queftions whether there is not a greater fimilitude and refemblance between Be but the fhadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? 570 As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where thefe Heavens now roll, where Earth now... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...spiritual to corporal forms, As many 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 Heav'ns now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...angel in 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 I ' A Roman Catholic writer in the CombUl Magazine, vol. 14, thus expresses himself : ' Here is a sentence... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...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 to' other like, more than on Earth is thought ? " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where these heav'n's now roll, where Earth new... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, that wliich M " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Keign'd where these Heavens now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...likening spiritual to coporal forms. As may express them best ; tho' what if earth 574 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 Keign'd where these Heav'ns now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...spiritual to corporeal 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 Upon... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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 on earth is thought? " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where these Heavens now roll, whereEarth now rests... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1825 - 576 pages
...inserted into the mouth of an angel, a kind of apology for it. ' Though what if earth Be but the shadow of heav'n, and things therein Each to 'other like, more than on earth is thought P 3 These These are blemishes, and sometimes almost tempt us to wish, that even Milton had taken some... | |
 | John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 514 pages
...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 on earth is thought ? Here Newton observes the artful suggestion that there may be a greater similitude and resemblance... | |
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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... 
