 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 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,...sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works hehold Both day and night : How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 416 pages
...glory of their common Father. This description, probably, gave birth to the following passage : — • How often from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket,...heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or resppnsive to each other's note, Hymning their great Creator J Par. Lost, b. 4. / Among the excavations... | |
 | 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 Landseer - Babylonia - 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 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,...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 rounding... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...passage : — " Nor think, though Men were none, That Heaven woul d want spectators, God want praise : Millions of Spiritual Creatures walk the Earth Unseen,...and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill and thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, (Sole, or responsive each to other's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...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 680 Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, 671. Their stellar... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...passage :' Nor think, though men were none, -.. ^ That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise: Millions of Spiritual Creatures walk the earth Unseen,...when we sleep; -"'.' All these with ceaseless praise bis works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill and thicket, have we... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 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, both when we wake and when we sleep; AH these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep... | |
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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... 
