| William Ellis - 1831 - 446 pages
...powers of imagination. By their rude mythology, each lovely island was made a sort of fairy-land, and the spells of enchantment were thrown over its varied scenes. The sentiment of the poet that— IV^^AjL I \ ,* i V. ^ Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep," ».«»'.' ' - i' "Millions of... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 302 pages
...scenes, with innumerable invisible beings. The beautiful verse of Milton describes their faith — ' Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen ; both when we wake and when we sleep.' What was to him, however, a momentary vision of the imagination was to them like a perpetual... | |
| Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 pages
...every where ? 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 ; • Ward's View of the Hindus, vol. ip 18. + But even of those deities the Hindus consider... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 pages
...busy day, were then calmly resting upon their beds : but the lovely scene did not want spectators— " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise His work behold Both day and night." MILTON. Nor were the unconscious... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...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 day and night : How often from steep... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 316 pages
...scenes, with innumerable invisible beings. The beautiful verse of Milton describes their faith — ' Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen ; both when we wake and when we sleep.' What was to him, however, a momentary vision of the imagination was to them like a perpetual... | |
| 1832 - 438 pages
...travel to their native clime, and with anxious fondness hover over the friends they left behind. " 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... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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 day and night : how often from the steep... | |
| 1832 - 1014 pages
...Hovering they glide to earth's extremest hound, A cloud aerial veils their forms around." ELTON. " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." MILTON. Justice is said, when injured, to take her seat by the throne of her father Jove —... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...of eloquence, of friendship, of solitude, of day, of night, of life, and death. Milton says, — " 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... | |
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