 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 400 pages
...But more refin'd, more spiritous, and pure, As nearer to Him plac'd, or nearer tending, Each in their several active spheres assign'd: Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So, from the root Springs lighter the green stalks; from thence the leaves More aery; last, the bright... | |
 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 388 pages
...and pure, As nearer to Him plac'd, or nearer tending, Each in their several active spheres assign 'd: Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So, from the root Springs lighter the green stalks; from thence the leaves More aery; last, the bright... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...more tyiritous, and pure, As neerer to him pkc't or neerer tending Each in thir several aftive Sphears assignd, Till body up to Spirit work, in bounds Proportiond to each land. So from the root More aerie, lasl the bright consummatefoure Spring lighter the green slalk,from... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 216 pages
...alternative to the emanation into matter, a higher place in the emanative scheme : "But more refin'd, more spiritous, and pure / As nearer to him plac't or nearer tending . . . Till body up to spirit work. . . ." And Raphael, a moment later, specifically postulates a spiritous... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and in things that live, of life; But more refin'd, more spiritous, and pure, As nearer to him plac't or nearer tending. (5.469-476) Matter is "plac't or nearer tending," but note that if all things "up to him return," they... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...But more refin'd, more spiritous and pure, As nearer to him plac'd or nearer tending, Each in their several active spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk: from thence the leaves More airy: last, the bright... | |
 | David Rosen - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 260 pages
...become the leaf become the flower. A stem is not a transformed root, nor does Milton present it as such: "Each in thir several active Spheres assign'd, / Till...spirit work, in bounds / Proportion'd to each kind" (V.477-79) states that each part is incapable of becoming any other part. "Up to spirit work," while... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...spiritous, and pure, As neerer to him plac't or neerer tending Each in thir several active Sphears assignd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportiond to each kind. (V.469-79) Wonder not then, what God for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper... | |
 | Stanton J. Linden - Literary Criticism - 392 pages
...objects in closer proximity to God are, by virtue of their placement, "more refin'd [emphasis mine], more spiritous, and pure / As nearer to him plac't or nearer tending" (ll. 475-76). The concrete embodiment of this chain of being, the gradual transformation from "body... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 224 pages
...with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and in things that live, of life; But more refin'd, more spiritous, and pure, As nearer to him plac't...nearer tending Each in thir several active Spheres assign' d, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. (5.469-79) Adam and Eve... | |
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But more refin'd, more spiritous, and pure, As nearer to him plac't or nearer tending Each in thir several active Spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. 
