 Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth forced on a soul's use while seeing heaven: The man is witless of the size, the sum, The value in proportion of all things, Or whether it be little or be much.  Calendar of the University of Sydney - Page xliby University of Sydney - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Robert Browning - 1830 - 426 pages
...treated a supposed case of a spiritual knowledge " increased beyond the fleshly faculty — heavea. opened to a soul while yet on earth, earth forced on a souj!s-use_while seeing heaven," a spiritual state, less desirable and far less favorable to the true... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...law. So here — we '11 call the treasure knowledge, say — Increased beyond the fleshly faculty — Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth...of all things, Or whether it be little or be much. Discourse to him of prodigious armaments Assembled to besiege his city now, And of the passing of a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...man's law. So here— we'll call the treasure knowledge, say, Increased beyond the fleshly faculty — Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth...of all things, Or whether it be little or be much. Discourse to him of prodigious armaments Assembled to besiege his city now, And of the passing of a... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1871 - 684 pages
...Something as Browning imagines from the point of view of raised Lazarus, who might be said to have had " Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth forced on a soul's use while seeing hearen ; " so, having returned, after that brief look into Eternity, to the domains of time again,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1872 - 310 pages
...man's law. So here — we call the treasure knowledge, say, Increased beyond the fleshly faculty — Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth...of all things, Or whether it be little or be much. Discourse to him of prodigious armaments Assembled to besiege his city now, And of the passing of a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...man's law. So here — we call the treasure knowledge, say, Increased beyond the fleshly faculty — Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth...of all things, Or whether it be little or be much. Discourse to him of prodigious armaments Assembled to besiege his city now, And of the passing of a... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1880 - 1108 pages
...man's law. So here — we call the treasure knowledge, say, Increased beyond the fleshly faculty — e. Receive me, my Redeemer, My Shepherd, make me thine : Of every good the fountain, Thou Discourse to him of prodigious armaments Assembled to besiege his city now, And of the passing of a... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 pages
...whom the eternal is sensibly present, whose spirit has gained prematurely absolute predominance : " Heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, Earth forced on a soul's use while seeing Heaven :"2 and the result is not a man but a sign ; a being " Professedly the faultier that he knows God's... | |
 | Robert Browning - Poetry - 1881 - 1006 pages
...poet has treated a supposed case of a spiritual knowledge " increased beyond the fleshly faculty — heaven opened to a soul while yet on earth, earth forced on a soul's use while seeing heaven," a spiritual State, less desirable and far less favourable to the true fulfilment of the purposes of... | |
 | Periodicals - 1883 - 436 pages
...the thing he has seen, but in four days of steady illumination. And what is the result ? ' The mau is witless of the size, the sum, The value in proportion...of all things, Or whether it be little or be much. Discourse to him and prodigious armaments Assembled to besiege his city now, And of the passing of... | |
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