...meek, the friend of God,' who was, as it were, his confident on earth, has taken his seat no nearer tof Him in Paradise than Samson and Jephthah, ' those...between whom and Milton Watts may be placed about halfway, has asked himself the same question ; and accordingly, when, in a poem worthy of its anti-illustrious...

...things can be compared with the things we seeThere are three lines of Milton's which express this: "What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?" We close our eyelids at night, and sight goes from us, and hearing, and the consciousness of all that...

...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...

...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...