 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 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 Reigned where these heavens now roll, where earth now... | |
 | Charles Beecher - Atonement - 1864 - 384 pages
...spiritual to corporeal forms, AB 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." How striking, then, the expression of the Prophet, considered as applied to one of the angelic world... | |
 | Elias De la Roche Rendell - 1864 - 352 pages
...WITH ITS QABDEN AND EASTEBN SITUATION. — HOW TO BE KEPT. "What if earth Be tut the shadow of heaven; and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?" MILTON'S "Paradise Lost," Book V., lines 574-G. THE points in that most ancient history in the world,... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1865 - 432 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 ? " In no modern philosopher is the attitude of Psychological Transcendentalism to the question of... | |
 | Church - 1866 - 568 pages
...sky." Or as Milton has expressed the same thought — " What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " The visible creation is a veil behind which the Creator, in His Church and outside of it, " worketh... | |
 | 1866 - 410 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... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...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 on Earth is thought? (570-576) This much-debated passage on accommodated speech begins by likening the forthcoming epic,... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...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 on Earth is thought? (V. 564-76, my emphasis) Whether that shadow is interpreted Neoplatonically or typologically, the question... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...Milton saw in Paradise a darkened glass of things to come: "though what if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein / Each to other like more than on Earth is thought?" (PL 5.574—76). From this perspective, Books i through 8 are a shadow of the truth that begins to... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 168 pages
...deny it, for he proceeds to undercut what he has just said: "though what if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein / Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" (V. 574576). This is one of those places where, as with the Ptolemaic and Copernican theories, Milton... | |
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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... 
