 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 sider
...thought with hidden matters: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree, Contented that thus far hath been re veal' d Not of Earth... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - 1997 - 388 sider
...counseling sobriety and humility. Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of Earth... | |
 | Ellen F. Davis - 2000 - 324 sider
...heavenly bodies, he replies: . . . heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds. . . . (8:172-75) Adam accepts the correction in words that were doubtless inspired by Koheledi: ...... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 sider
...aspire, declaring memorably: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds.17 .i Gray's poem, by contrast, focuses on the type of knowledge that mature men would only... | |
 | Louis Daniel Brodsky - 1996 - 644 sider
...of dinner and an evening cigar. 4/12 & 4/19/66 — lII (04021) Inquiring Adam . . . be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being: Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree, . . . Raphael, VIII, 173-176 But apt the Mind or Fancv is... | |
 | Eva Hölter - 2002 - 360 sider
...verstoßenen Adam gibt: „[...] heaven is for thee to high / To know what passes there; be lowly wise: / Think only what concerns thee and thy being; / Dream not of other worlds [...]"47 Auf der weiteren Reise gelangen Satanael und das Ich ua in die Stadt der Weisen und Gottesfürchtigen... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 sider
...this Paradise And thy fair Eve; heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition or degree. Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of earth only... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 sider
...illuminated and adorned 150. That the sun is Male is implied in by everlasting lights . . . merely to serve And thy fair Eve: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds,... | |
 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 sider
...fathomed by human intelligence: Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other Worlds. (8.172-75) Adam, for prelapsarian intelligences need only a hint to understand and expand truth, develops... | |
 | John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 sider
...English as The Civilizing Process. 2 vols. (New York: Pantheon, 1982). avoidance. "Be lowly wiser/Think only what concerns thee and thy being;/ Dream not of other worlds," Raphael advises Adam (Paradise Lost, 8.17375). Neither abyss-artists nor abyss-redeemers have much... | |
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Eve ; heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there ; be lowly wise : Think only what concerns thee and thy being ; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been reveal'd... 
