 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 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,...sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Roth day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 504 pages
...circumscription, than that of Simple present, past, or future, the Tenseis AN AORIST, Tuvs THUS Milton, Millions of spiritual creatures WALK the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. PL IV. 277. • Here the verb (WALK) means not that they were walking at that instant only,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 696 pages
...Hcsiod above cited, nor think tho' man were none, That heaven woHld want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen,...wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praiw bis works behold, Both day and night. I'* ml. L«ti, iv. 675, | Vcr.Mu tinem. n* in h'n account... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...in vain; nor think, though men wert none, 675 That Heav'n would want spectators, God warn praise i Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and whefi we s!etp: All these with ceaseless praise his works behoM Both day and night: how often from... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...passage : -Nor think, though men were none, 1 hat lieav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? Oft in bands, While they keep watch, or nightly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 296 pages
...given countenance to this opinion by the well-known 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, Kc. "And more strongly still by the description wherein Satan is represented in the act of mspiring... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, hoth when we wake and when we sleep; All these with ceaseless praise his work- hehold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...Urchins Shall exercise upon thee Prospero to Calyban in the Tempest. See Pope's Iliad, XIII. 199. (j,) How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket...to each other's note, Singing their great Creator! Par. Lost, b. 4. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike. /i/. See also... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - English language - 1809 - 456 pages
...Definite or Indefinite, not in respect to action, but to time. When, in the passage from Milton, u Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, " Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.'' he considers " walk" as Indefinite, is it in regard to action? No. " It is," says he., " because... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - National characteristics, American - 1810 - 326 pages
...epic poet, when delivering the traditionary belief of Jews, as well as christians, has said or sung, Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,...to each other's note. Singing' their great Creator! It must indeed be acknowledged that men, as soon as they begin to think that they understand the operations... | |
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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... 
