 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1754 - 342 pages
...shall declineate fo , By lik'ning fpiritual to corporeal forms , As may exprefs them beft : though, what if earth Be but the shadow of heav'n; and things therein Each t' other like, more than on earth is thought >. A> yet this world was not , and Chaos wild Reign'd... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...sense, I shall delineate so, By lik'ning 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, • As may express them best ; though what if Earth Be but the shadow' of Heav'n, and things therein 575 Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...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 Heav'n, and things therein 575 Bach to1 other like, more than on earth is thought ? tt As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pages
...takes for his motto those well-known lines of Milton : — "What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought." He then complains, in his preface, of the injury done to religion by the " uninteresting representations... | |
 | John Evans - Baptists - 1819 - 444 pages
...impenetrable obscurity. The bold genius of Milton however asked — What if EARTH Be but a shadow of Heaven, and things therein, Each to the other like — more than on earth is thought ? 1. We have reason to believe that one of the employments of HEAVEN will be the contemplation of THE... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 heav'n, and things therein 575 Each to' other like, more than on earth is thought ? As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild... | |
 | 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
...unsatisfactory in this, and has 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...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 heav'n, and things therein 575 Each to other like ; more than on earth is thought ? 'As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild... | |
 | Gabriele Rossetti - Courtly love - 1840 - 400 pages
...spiritual to corporea! forms, As may express them best : though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ?" prima ora del giorno*, e Petrarca restò a piangerla. Ed egualmente, Madonna Fiam metta morì (non... | |
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This is dispensed, and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heav'n ; and things therein Each to other like, more than... 
