...tabernacles, and pavilions, all mysteriously meant, "though what if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein / Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" (5.574-76). On earth, such things are burdens and distortions of nature's beauty when they are effects...

...suggests, that there was greater Propriety in so doing, than his first Caution seem'd to imply; Tho' what if Earth Be but the Shadow of Heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought. [V, 574-6] And this (I say) is corrupting our Notions of spiritual Things, and sensualizing our Ideas...

...sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best, though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?35 Although in Milton's understanding the distance between the extremes is perhaps greater...

...spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best, though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought? (5-563—76) Henry John Todd, Merritt Hughes, and John Carey and Alastair Fowler, in their respective...

...especially its Editor-in-Chief Robert Heyer and my editor, Sarah Smiley. CHAPTER ONE Paradise Lost What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like more than on earth is thought? -J. Milton, Paradise Lost, V, 57 4 The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell,...

...164 32 Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell. Parmlise Lost (1667) bk. 5, 1. 449 33 What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? /'«rudis? Lost ( 16671 bk. 5, 1. 574 1 Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations,...

...teachers, listening to them and asking questions. All who heard him were amazed at his intelligent answers. What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? 'Paradise Lost', John Milton John the Baptist came to the desert of Judea and started preaching. 'Turn...

.../ By likening spiritual to corporal forms / As may express them hest, though what if earth / Be hut the shadow of heaven, and things therein / Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?" (V, 572576). '1 The Calvinist God is not only omnipotent, omnipresent etc. (the catholic God shares...

...sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best, though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?0 As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reigned where these heavens now roll, where earth...

...spiritual to corporal forms. As may express them best, though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like more than on Earth is thought? (5.5 70-6) The angel's language here is essentially Neoplatonic: since the phenomenal world is a "shadow"...