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" Shine 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. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both... "
Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711 - Page 114
by John Milton - 1801
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The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - Literature, Modern - 1807 - 706 pages
...following passage of 'Mil ton seems to owe its origin to that of Heaio4 above cited, -- nor think tho" man were none, That heaven would want spectators, God...ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. foraJ. Loit, ir. 61 1, | V«nw nucui. in 1m account of tlie vast transmarine comment, which is taken...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 5-6

British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the eurth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep ; All...behold Both day and night. How often from the steep (K echoing hill or thieket have we .heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...though unbeheld in deep of night, 674 Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions...have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, 671. Their stellar virtue] As Hesiod's notion of goodgeniusses, Milton was an universal scholar, the...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...though unbeheld in deep of night, 67* Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise: Millions of...behold Both day and night: how often from the steep 6so Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, 671. Their sfellar...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...his third line in the following passage : — " Nor think, though Men were none, That Heaven woul d want spectators, God want praise : Millions of Spiritual...behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill and thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, (Sole, or responsive...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of night, Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That Heav'n would want spectators,God ; Slave to / Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
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Time's Telescope

Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...old Hesiod, which is almost word for word the same with his third line in the following passage :' Nor think, though men were none, -.. ^ That Heaven...when we sleep; -"'.' All these with ceaseless praise bis works behold Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill and thicket, have we...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...spectators. (Jod want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth All these with reaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often,...hill, or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices, to^the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other'* note, Singing their great Creator? oft in...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 1

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...same with his third line in the following passage: — Nor think, though men were none . That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise: Millions of...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...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions...behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
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