Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Pàgina 98per John Milton, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 312 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Paul Elmer More - 1906 - 302 pàgines
...love there could be no meaning or purpose in that great display of beauty, then Adam replies to her : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole or responsive each... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - 1912 - 818 pàgines
...Lost," which gives an excellent example for memorising : Nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions...behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
| George Henry Borrow - 1907 - 426 pàgines
...about spirits than he will admit in prose. Of angels he can sing: —nor think, though men were gone That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise...walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep Sole, or responsive each to others note Singing their great Creator: oft in bands While they... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1907 - 142 pàgines
...old Hesiod, which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage. — Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would...praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 20 Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both... | |
| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1908 - 208 pàgines
...in old Hesiod, which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage : —Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would...; All these with ceaseless praise His works behold Loth day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices... | |
| John Milton - 1908 - 586 pàgines
...then, though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain, nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions...both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceasless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep 680 Of echoing Hill... | |
| Alfred Noyes - 1911 - 446 pàgines
...whom This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?" To whom our general ancestor replied : " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
| Sigmund Spaeth - 1913 - 202 pàgines
...slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant * sung. PL 4. 675-688: Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would...behold. Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
| John Milton - 1924 - 568 pàgines
...to receive Perfection from the Sun's more potent ray. These, then, though uubeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain. Nor think, though men were none,...walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep 680... | |
| Henry Alfred Todd - 1914 - 556 pàgines
...Let there be set beside Caliban's words the following passage spoken by Milton's Adam in Paradise: Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen,...behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing Hill or Thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
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