 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
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...The secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good This is dispens'd : and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, As may express them hest ; though what if ear.h Be but the shadow of heav'n, and things therein Each to... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? Yet for thy good 570 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... | |
 | Charles Beecher - Atonement - 1864 - 384 pages
...exclude it from the notice of our senses." Accordingly, Milton represents Raphael as saying : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Beecher - Atonement - 1864 - 384 pages
...exclude it from the notice of our senses." Accordingly, Milton represents Raphael as saying : — " What surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forms, AB may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein, Each... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...another world, perhaps " Not lawful to reveal ?— Yet, for thy good, 570 " 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... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1865 - 432 pages
...secrets of another World, perhaps Not lawful to be revealed ? 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Language and languages - 1865 - 358 pages
...pages were written. CHAPTER XVIII. THE PART PLAYED BY THE IMAGINATION IN THE INVENTION OF LANGUAGE* ' What surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best.' MILTON, Par. Lost, v. 37. IN one of those pregnant concessions... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal? vet for thy good 570 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... | |
 | David Masson - Philosophy - 1866 - 334 pages
..."World, perhaps Not lawful to be revealed ? Yet, for thy good, This is dispensed ; and what smmounts 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 394 pages
...secrets of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good, 570 This is dispens'd, 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... | |
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