 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 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, both when we wake, and when we sleep. AH these, with ceaseless praise, his works behold Both day and night : how often from the ste.ep... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 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, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, . Both day and night. How often, from the... | |
 | Luke Booker - Future life - 1822 - 192 pages
...visit oft tlie dwellings of just men, And thither send his winged messengers G On errands of Us grace. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." • ' • ;•.•;••. i -.. Nojus* objection to this soothing doctrine can arise from... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...following 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 ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...following 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 ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep... | |
 | 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 Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...above cited, -- nor think tho" man 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. foraJ. Loit, ir. 61 1,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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, both when we wake, and when we sleep; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep... | |
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Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... 
