 | 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, both when we wake, and when we sleep; -"'.' All these with ceaseless praise bis works behold Both day and night. How often, from the... | |
 | 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: / sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night: how often from the steep... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...gend ; Or on his own dread presence to attend. It is the same conception in Par. Lost, iv. 677Millions 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 scat didst post.... | |
 | Samuel Barnard - Language and languages - 1825 - 328 pages
...further drcumscrifition than that of simple firesent, fiast, or future, the tense is ад aorist. Thus Milton ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the...we sleep. Here the verb (walk) means not that they were walking at that instant enly when Adam sfioke, but eegu*;, indefinitely, take any instant whatever.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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, 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... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 396 pages
...stolen away from company, and am remote from all human observation. But that is an alarming thought, Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep! — Par. Last. Perhaps there may be numbers of those invisible beings patrolling this same retreat,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God w7ant praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, an-1 when we sleep. ^11 these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often,... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - Conduct of life - 1827 - 270 pages
...angels are ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation; and, as Milton says, ' Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep;' if she were permitted to speak to us, she would perhaps say, ' Weep not for me, but for yourselves.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...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 tho... | |
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Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive... 
