 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Paradise And thy fair Eve ; Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there. Be lowly wise ; Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree — Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of Earth... | |
 | J. Dobrzycki - Philosophy - 1972 - 378 pages
...above, him serve and fear... [...] heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of earth only... | |
 | 1903 - 1096 pages
...father thus : — Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there : be lowly wise : Tin 11 1, only what concerns thee and thy being ; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree. • So I went to bed, slept soundly, awoke without a headache,... | |
 | Galbraith Miller Crump - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 196 pages
...this Paradise And thy fair Eve: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree, Contented that thus far hath been reveal'd Not of Earth only... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 252 pages
...the Miltonic injunction to man: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree. (VII1. 171-76) Whereas Raphael provides Adam with a vision... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...pursue this kind of study, but to concentrate his thoughts on "what he gives to thee, this Paradise / And thy fair Eve": Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowlie wise: Think onely what concernes thee and thy being . . . [8.171-74] Then Adam,... | |
 | R.J Lambourne, M.J Shallis, M Shortland - Science - 1990 - 204 pages
...mind his own business: . . . heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being: Dream not of other worlds, . . . [Milton Paradise Lost Book VIII] Despite the angelic embargo, tales of voyages to the Moon and... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...Fall: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowlie wise: Think onely what concernes thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree, Contented that thus farr hath been reveal'd Not of Earth... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - Political Science - 1993 - 228 pages
...virtute e canoscenza.' Dante, La Divina Commedia, Inferno. XXVI. 112-20 Think onely what concernes thee and thy being, Dream not of other worlds, what Creatures there Live in what state condition or degree. . . .' John Milton, Paradise Lost, Bk.viii. 174-6 From the... | |
 | Ann Stewart Balakier, James J. Balakier - Architecture - 1995 - 208 pages
...though, is non-committal and finally, after humoring Adam, voices a mild rebuke: ... be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being: Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree, Contented that thus far hath been reveal'd Not of Earth only... | |
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Eve ; heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there ; be lowly wise : Think only what concerns thee and thy being ; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been reveal'd... 
