 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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? serviles organes d'un destin impérieux? Moi-même, et toute l'armée céleste qui se tient devant... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...believing that the author of one is the author of both. "What, if earth Be bot the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?" Thus, revelation declares that we are to live hereafter in a state differing considerably from that... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 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, where earth now... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, ur instruction, to impart Things above earthly thought, which yet con " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where these Heavens now roll, where Earth now rests... | |
 | Samuel Noble - New Jerusalem Church - 1845 - 564 pages
...great poet felt it necessary to suggest, as quoted above, " What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought :" — if the most elevated geniuses, though they assign to angels a nature different from the human,... | |
 | 1846 - 352 pages
...even visible in Nature, for the strength and comfort of man ? Though what if Earth Be but the shadow' of Heav'n, and things therein, Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought ? I. 574. Surely this is an arrangement worthy of the wisdom and goodness of the Author of both Heaven... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...analogy shall we find between things temporal and spiritual: "Wh&t if earth Be but the shadow of heaven and things therein, Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought !" We find that the Jewish people were continually instructed by signs : their whole worship was typical;... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1873 - 398 pages
...lands. The prince of English poets significantly asks, " What if earth be but the shadow of heaven and things therein each to other like more than on earth is thought?" This scene of blended majesty and loveliness of dazzling glory, and ravishing sweetness presented to... | |
 | Richard Mant - Heaven - 1848 - 252 pages
...agreeably to the idea ascribed to Raphael by our great poet, " what if earth Be but the shadow ofheaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought t " PL v. 574. or that the representations of heavenly things are set before us in a figurative manner,... | |
 | 1849 - 858 pages
...angel to Milton is often forced upon their meditations— 1 What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven and things therein, Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' For it is a great misunderstanding of the matter, to think of these as happily, but yet arbitrarily,... | |
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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... 
