...and during their residence in flesh and blood ! " Watts seems to have said in his mind with Milton, What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? Blackmore, between whom and Milton Watts may be placed about half way, has asked himself the same question...

...and better world, provided they are directed to the highest and holiest objects of investigation. " What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?" In giving a eritieal analysis of this work, we shall deviate from the plan of our author, beeause the...

...and during their residence in flesh and blood \" Watts seems to have said in his mind with Milton, What, if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than oa earth is thought ? Blackmore, between whom and Milton Watts may be placed about half way, has asked...

...not wholly unknown to Milton, who, however, only ventures to suggest it by the mouth of an angel: " What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought ? " In every particular of nature, man may see something...

...the mirror in which we may behold the internal and the spiritual, as Milton indicates in the lines: What if earth Be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein, Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought. The Manifold Phases of Figurative Speech The figures...

...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? (V. 564-76, my emphasis) Whether that shadow is interpreted Neoplatonically or typologically, the question...

...in Paradise a darkened glass of things to come: "though what if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein / Each to other like more than on Earth is thought?" (PL 5.574—76). From this perspective, Books i through 8 are a shadow of the truth that begins to...

...he proceeds to undercut what he has just said: "though what if Earth / Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein / Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought?" (V. 574576). This is one of those places where, as with the Ptolemaic and Copernican theories, Milton...

...a contrast of this life. In the language of the noblest of Christian poets, "What if Earth Be but a shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?"'3 Thus, brethren, the gospel teaches us, as the author of Ecclesiastes, not a direct assurance...

...his account of the war in heaven with the question, . . . what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each to other like, more than on Earth is thought? — Paradise Lost, V (lines 574-76) See William G. Madsen, "Earth the Shadow of Heaven: Typological...