| British poets - 1822 - 272 sidor
...also; and, as Mr. Addison observes, Milton doubtless had an eye on this part of Hesiod, where he say?, Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. Paradise Lost. I cannot help taking particular notice of the beauty and use of our author's... | |
| 1822 - 788 sidor
...want spectators. God wnnt praise : Millions of spiritual creature* walk the earth !)!.:• u both uhen we wake and when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both ri;iv and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices... | |
| 1822 - 440 sidor
...to entertain a qualified belief in the occasional appearance of beings from the invisible world. " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.1' The sylphs and genii of other countries, and of other times, and the brownies and fairies... | |
| 1822 - 816 sidor
...conceive the sublime British poet fully justified in attributing to AngeU«, adoration by music. . — How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive to each others notes, Singing tbeir great... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 sidor
...with his third line in the following passage : Nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual...the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 sidor
...his third line in the following passage : -Nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual...the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 sidor
...third line in the following passage : . — Nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual...How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket hare we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 884 sidor
...That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the eurth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep; All these...behold Both day and night. How often from the steep (K echoing hill or thieket have we .heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
| 1823 - 360 sidor
...given countenance to this opinion by the wellJtnown passage which he puts into the mouth of Adam : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep, &c. " And more strongly still by the description wherein Satan is represented in the act of... | |
| John Landseer - 1823 - 430 sidor
...Scriptures, has encreased their number and the sanctity of their office, by writing that " Milliont of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep : Oft in bands While they keep watch ; or nightly walking round, With heav'nly touch of instrumental... | |
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