 | New Church gen. confer - 1842 - 502 pàgines
...several subjects. He 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 - 1819 - 444 pàgines
...enveloped in 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... | |
 | Paul Ferrol - 1827 - 222 pàgines
...SAVIOUR, COSSIDEIIED IN HIS CHARACTER OF MAN. BY PAUL FERROL. What if earth Be but the shadow of heav'n; and things therein, Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ? LONDONi PRINTED FOR JOHN RODWELL, NEW BOND.STREET. MDCCCXXVII. MILTON. THE HUMAN INTELLECT CONSIDERED... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1833 - 300 pàgines
...after the glorious prize of immortality. The greatest of our poets observes — ' What if eanh Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to the other like, more than is thought?' Who indeed can doubt that as an uninterrupted chain of beings descends from man to brutes,... | |
 | Gabriele Rossetti - 1840 - 400 pàgines
..." By likening 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... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1847 - 196 pàgines
...Milton was more than a poet, or rather he was truly a poet, when he says, Though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven and things therein, Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ! And Wordsworth, true to the same poetic instinct, has the same idea in his Laodamia. He speaks of... | |
 | 1854 - 466 pàgines
...Milton, who, however, only ventures to suggest it by the mouth of an angel: " What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ? " In every particular of nature, man may see something resembling himself, while in universal nature... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1856 - 80 pàgines
...Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, itc. • What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein, Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought? — jLTtMon. We all came into the world for something ; we shall all go out of it for more ; just as... | |
 | 1857 - 850 pàgines
...ruler. From this he draws the conclusion, that, as regard« man, in Milton's language — " Earth ia the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to the other like, more than on eartk is thought." This analytic methpd is emphatically Aristotelian, though in the Analogy it is not... | |
 | 1858 - 770 pàgines
...patient enquirer who reads the lessons of philosophy and history. With Milton, we believe that " Earth is the shadow of Heaven, and things therein, Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ;" * See Essay on Ranke, vol. ii. , p. 1 29, Edition 1 854. It is true that, in this Essay, Lord Macauhty... | |
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