 Wonder not then, what God for you saw good If I refuse not, but convert, as you, To proper substance ; time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare : And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your...  Milton's Legacy - Page 41edited by - 2005 - 257 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit. (5-491-497) No wonder? But the hunger of our unfallen digestion is an unchecked appetite for wonder.... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
.... . [5.479-87] Raphael goes on to suggest the possibility of an even higher ascension, saying that perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit,...may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell; If ye be found obedient . . . [5.497-501] Even disobedience cannot wholly interrupt that upward movement:... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...by tract of time," Raphael tells them, "Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit . . . and winged ascend / Ethereal, as wee, or may at choice / Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell; /If ye be found obedient" (5.497501). George Herbert had also expressed the latter belief: Before that... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...time may come when men With Angels may participate, and find No inconveniem Diet, nor too light Fare: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies...may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell; If ye be found obediem, and retain Unalterably firm his love emire Whose progenie you are. (V.49 1-503)... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...We are given only glimpses of the political future of unfallen Man, Raphael's prediction that their bodies "may at last turn all to spirit, / Improv'd by tract of time" (5:497-98) and Michael's suggestion that had Adam not sinned, Eden would have been Perhaps thy Capital... | |
 | John Martin Evans - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...Unfällen pair will eventually assume the form of their heavenly visitor; their bodies, Raphael tells them: may at last turn all to Spirit, Improv'd by tract...may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell; If ye be found obedient. (497-501; see »ko Just as the Indians of Noonanetum in New England adopted... | |
 | Colin Spencer - Vegetarianism - 1996 - 420 pages
...men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare. And from those corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit, Improved by tract of time, and winged ascend Ethereal as we;33 Nor would it be true to say that all... | |
 | Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...food and knowledge. He thus imagines that a time may come when men With Angels may participate, . . . And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies...Improv'd by tract of time, and wing'd ascend Ethereal, as we or may at choice Here or in Heav'nly Paradises dwell. (PL, v. 494-500) The angel's warrant for such... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...496—500, would furnish a contrast to the nutriments, depths, and heights of TSE's New York-scape: And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit, Improved by tract of time, and winged ascend Ethereal, as we, or may at choice Here or in heavenly... | |
 | Joseph E. Duncan - Religion - 1972 - 349 pages
...bodily perfection were natural, rather than the result of grace. Apparently the process whereby their "bodies may at last turn all to Spirit / Improv'd by tract of time" (V, 497-98) is also natural. Although they are independent of nature, they are moved by her. Adam feels... | |
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