 This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human 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 heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than...  The Vision, Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise - Page 420by Dante Alighieri - 1858 - 587 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri - 1857 - 522 pages
...Gudomen. Milton säger: (se Par. Lost. B. 5. v. 575 o. ff. What surmounts the reach Of human sense, J shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As shall express them best. V. 48. "Den ock:" Raphacl. (Se: Tobisc Bok cap. 11.) V. 58—60. Dante antager, att stjernorna utöfva... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...producing effect ; how wonderfully he has accomplished his aim — " What - 1 1 1 ii . r 1 1 1 , i ; s the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so By...spiritual to corporeal forms, As shall express them best. In what delightful, yet splendid, hues he has reproduced the primeval world — so like, yet so unlike,... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 pages
...one can for a moment gainBay. Thus the angel Raphael is made to say, in Milton's Paradise Lost, — 1 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 therein Each to... | |
 | Ireland - 1858 - 770 pages
...avails itself of every art of producing effect ; how wonderfully he has accomplished his aim — " What surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, A- shall express them best. In what delightful, yet splendid, hues he has reproduced the primeval world—... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1859 - 630 pages
...: and so to shun Derision, haply thus he hath disguised His true opinion.* If his meaning be, 1 The first circle.] The empyrean. " Hands and feet] Thus...surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate %o, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As shall express them best. ' P. Z,., bv 575. These passages,... | |
 | Samuel Noble - New Jerusalem Church - 1860 - 554 pages
...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 Be but the shadow of heaven^ and things therein £ach... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal? yet for thy good This is dispensed; and what surmounts the reach Of human 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 heaven, and things... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - Microscopes - 1861 - 652 pages
...one can for a moment gainsay. 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, Aa may express them best : though wlml if earth Be but tht ihadom of keacea, and thinyi therein Each... | |
 | John Mair - Temperance - 1861 - 322 pages
...account of the sublime transactions connected with the apostacy of the fallen angels : . . . . "And what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; tho' what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven and things... | |
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