 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...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 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...Shine not in vain; nor think, though men were none, That heav'n 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 day and night. How often, from the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 pages
...following passage : -Nor think, though men were none, That heav'n 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 day and night. How often from the steep... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 356 pages
...following passage : Nor think, though men were none, That heav'n 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 day and night. How often from the steep... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 750 pages
...has given countenance to this opinion by the wellknown 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 Aikin - 1807 - 706 pages
...above cited, -- nor think tho" man 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 day and night. foraJ. Loit, ir. 61 1,... | |
 | John Landseer - 1823 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...doth send ; Or on his own dread presence to attend. It is the same conception in Par. Lost, iv. 677. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep, &c. See also On the Death of a Fair Infant, v. 59. To earth from thy prefixed seat didst post.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That Heav'n would want spectators,God want praise: / sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night: how often from the steep... | |
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Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... 
