 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.  Paradise Lost - Page 106by John Milton - 1850 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Roberts - Gloucestershire (England) - 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,...when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise His work behold Both day and night." MILTON. Nor were the unconscious sleepers unprotected. All, all, were... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - English literature - 1831 - 666 pages
...five only to be principal objects of worship; viz. Vishnu, Shiva, Devi, Surya (the sun), and Gauesha. 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 midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 746 pages
...choirs of fervent Angels sang Their vespers in the grove. How often, from the steep Of echoing hitt or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the...each to other's note, Singing their great Creator! Or obvious hill. Nor obvious hill. Composed on an Evening of Beauty, oi 2. PL iv. 680-4. "As the cold... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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,...behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air. Sole, or responsive... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...Psalm 24. and when he himself was instructing Eve earlier, he described the songs they both heard : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 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,...ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. (IV. 674-80) Adam asserts that there is a proper way to approach the heavens after all: to praise them.... | |
 | Michael Ondaatje - Fiction - 2011 - 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,...behold Both day and night: how often from the steep Of echoing Hill or Thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 496 pages
...absolutely orthodox Milton advocated Spiritualism, in language faithful to the sublime reality, thus: " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...behold, Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole or responsive each... | |
 | Catharine Parr Traill - Fiction - 1999 - 239 pages
...unseen by man? "Nor think though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...with ceaseless praise His works behold Both day and night."2 THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST "Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...Passage . . . Nor think, though Men were none, That Heav'n would want Spectators, God want Praise: Millions of spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen,...sleep; All these with ceaseless Praise his Works behold Day and Night. How often from the Steep Of echoing Hill or Thicket, have we heard Celestial Voices... | |
| |
