 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 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 [rests Reigned where these Heavens now roll, where earth... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 pages
...(vi. 472 seq.) ; for as the Angel elsewhere says, Though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought ! — v. 574. Like Earth, too, Heaven had its succession of day and night : — Evening now approached... | |
 | Albert Woodruff - Religious education - 1856 - 428 pages
...was made after the pattern of things seen in the mount. 'What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven and things therein, Each to other like, more than on earth is thought.' Milton. " Earth is the shadow of heaven. The same Lord who sits upon the throne in heaven, does, with... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 pages
...the form of a surmise, he goes on to suggest, " Though, what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" Mrs. Browning, in Aurora Leigh, also expresses her fine sense of this great "linked harmony," and the... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 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 !" The great class of insects, which furnishes four-fifths of the existing species of the animal kingdom,... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1859 - 366 pages
...beauty of this planet with some of those fairy splendours? -What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ?' "• . " Well," said Miss Phoebe, after a pause, which to some of the party was awkward, and to... | |
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...balance somewhat the absurdity of his descriptions: — What if earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like more than on earth is thought. He can only convey to us ideas of things in Heaven by clothing them in earthly garb ; he knows how... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 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 rests... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Earth 575 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... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - Bible - 1860 - 436 pages
...GENERAL VIEWS OF NATURE CONTAINED IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. " What if earth Be bat the shadow of Heaven, and things therein, Each to other like ; more than on earth is thought." MILTOH. MANY persons may be disposed to concede the accurate delineation of natural facta open to human... | |
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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... 
