 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 day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the...  The British Essayists - Sida 52redigerad av - 1808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 sidor
...the.pleasure enjoyed by our first parents when listening to the music of the angels in the garden of Eden. . How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket...voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others note, Singing their great Creator ? .Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rsunding... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 sidor
...concert heard, And void's clianting from the vood crowned hill. Summer. From Paradise Lost, iv. 608. Often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have...Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive to each others note. '• These," says Blair, " are gentle spirits ; descending on sunbeams ; fair... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 sidor
...of Adam first of men, addressed to his fair consort.... " Nor think, tbo' men were none, Thai heaven would want spectators, God want praise* Millions of...ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night." If our ears were notdull and limited as our spirits.... " How ofteji, from the steep Of echoing lull... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 sidor
...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 of...sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Roth day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices... | |
 | James Harris - 1806 - 504 sidor
...circumscription, than that of Simple present, past, or future, the Tenseis AN AORIST, Tuvs THUS Milton, Millions of spiritual creatures WALK the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. PL IV. 277. • Here the verb (WALK) means not that they were walking at that instant only,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 sidor
...seems to owe its origin to that of Hcsiod above cited, nor think tho' man were none, That heaven woHld want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual...wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praiw bis works behold, Both day and night. I'* ml. L«ti, iv. 675, | Vcr.Mu tinem. n* in h'n account... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sidor
...in vain; nor think, though men wert none, 675 That Heav'n would want spectators, God warn praise i Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and whefi we s!etp: All these with ceaseless praise his works behoM Both day and night: how often from... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 sidor
...with his third liuc in the following passage: — — — Nor think, thongh men were none, That Heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, hoth when we wake and when we sleep; All these with ceaseless praise his work- hehold Both day and... | |
 | Greek tragic theatre - 1809 - 526 sidor
...Orientales, p. 90. Milton knew how to make the finest use of this idea of the harmony of the spheres, How often from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket,...Celestial voices, to the midnight air (Sole, or responsive to each other's note) Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 sidor
...Urchins Shall exercise upon thee Prospero to Calyban in the Tempest. See Pope's Iliad, XIII. 199. (j,) How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket...voices, to the midnight air, Sole,— or responsive to each other's note, Singing their great Creator! Par. Lost, b. 4. And over them triumphant Death... | |
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