| John Milton - 1829 - 426 Seiten
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal? yet for thy good This is dispens'd ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them hest ; though what if earth Be hut the shadow' of heaven, and... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1830 - 622 Seiten
...correspondence as gives very strong reason for believing that the author of one is the author of both. ' What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' The argument, indeed, does not amount to proof, but to presumption. It is as though the parentage... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 620 Seiten
...correspondence as gives very strong reason for believing that the author of one is the author of both. ' What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' The argument, indeed, does not amount to proof, but to presumption. It is as though the parentage... | |
| Samuel Noble - 1830 - 266 Seiten
...heaven is an idea of a mere nothing. Thus the angel Raphael is made to say, in Milton's Paradise Lost, " 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 Se lut the shadow of heaven, and things... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1831 - 264 Seiten
...proposes to overcome the difficulty in the only way in which it can be conceived possible to be overcome: —what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best. PAR. LOsT. Book 5. 1. 563. Still must the discourse of the Angel have been unintelligible to Adam:... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 Seiten
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good 575 This is dispensed ; 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... | |
| Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 Seiten
...World beyond world, In infinite extent, Profusely scatter'd o'er the blue immense." — THOMSON. ' What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " Pir. Lout. Book V. 1. .-.71. IT is not absolutely necessary for us to be acquainted, while in this... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 Seiten
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal? yet for thy good This is dispens'd ; 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... | |
| Anne Manning - 1833 - 250 Seiten
...sighed to awake to the remembrance that we were not made to be the tenants of such heavenly scenery." •'What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' " " Well," said Miss Phrebe, after a pause which to some of the party was awkward, and to others... | |
| 1833 - 134 Seiten
...IN HEAVEN. A Fragment. By an eminent Professor in one of the Colleges. Demy 12 mo. Price 4s. boards. "What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to each other like, more than on earth is thought ?"— Milton. This work was originally collected by... | |
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