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... The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 126by John Blair Linn - 1802 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pages
...the glory of their common Father. This description, probably, gave birth to the following passage:— How often from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket,...Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive to each other's note, Hymning their great Creator ! Pur. Lett, b. 4. Among the excavations of grotto-work,... | |
| Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 746 pages
...wood-crown'd hill, The deepening dale, or inmost sylvan glade. Ib. 556-60. How often, from the sleep Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air . . . With heavenly touch of instrumental sotmds In full harmonic number join 'd. Where the bee ...... | |
| 1909 - 502 pages
...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,...touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to Heaven." Thus talking, hand in hand... | |
| John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...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...touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven. 1v 677 In this harmony Adam... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...spiritual Creatures walk the Earth" beholding and praising God's works "Both day and night" and celebrates Celestial voices to the midnight air Sole, or responsive each to other's note Singing thir great Creator: oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With Heav'nly touch... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep 680 Of echoing hill or thicket, have we heard Celestial...great Creator! Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nighdy rounding walk. With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number joined, their... | |
| Andreas Fischer - 1994 - 276 pages
...a double rebound, "echoing" and "Celestial voices," in three lines connected by enjambement: . . . how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket...have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, In the final chorus of "Clorinda and Damon" (27-30), Andrew Marvell uses the verb "echo" in a linear... | |
| Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 496 pages
...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...Creator. Oft in bands, While they keep watch or nightly round' ag walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number joined, their songs... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 1997 - 350 pages
...antiphonal and full choir, as Adam reminds Eve, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing thir great Creator: oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With Heav'nly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number join'd, thir songs Divide the night,... | |
| Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 pages
...or Thicket, have we heard Celestial Voices to the midnight Air, Sole, or responsive each to others Note, Singing their great Creator: Oft in Bands, While they keep Watch, or nightly Rounding walk, With heav'nly Touch of instrumental Sounds, In full harmonick Number join'd, their Songs Divide the Night,... | |
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