 | Jabez Hogg - 1871 - 808 pages
...result of which is one universal chain of being, no one can for a moment gainsay. Thus the angel Baphael is made to say, in Milton's Paradise Lost, — ' What surmounts the reach Of human Reuse, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporeal forma, As may express them best : though... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...describe that of which no man has ever had experience on earth. Therefore Raphael tells Adam — " 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 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 lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...The secrete of another world, perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good This is dispens'd ; and and breath 'st defiance here and scorn, Where I reign king, and, to enrage corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if Eanh Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things... | |
 | Mary G. Ware - Gardening - 1876 - 286 pages
...XIX. INSECTS AND WORMS. XX. THE POWER AND USE OF CIRCUMSTANCE. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, "What snrmonnts 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, English - 1877 - 354 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... | |
 | John Andrew Himes - 1878 - 518 pages
...narrative accepted in altogether a literal sense is evident from Raphael's preface to his story: " What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so By likening spiritual to corporal forms As may express them best." Under the physical, corporal imagery, then, we arc to I look... | |
 | Frederick Thrupp - 1879 - 36 pages
...features, forms, and lineaments, as the beings on earth and in the sea are varied and differing. 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... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...to describe that of which no man has ever had experience on earth. Therefore Raphael tells Adam : " 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... | |
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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... 
