...lawful to reveal? Yet for thy good This is dispensed, and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, 1 shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal...Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? 14 Milton projects the central problem of all visionary poetry through Raphael's sweep of rhetorical...

...good This is dispens't, and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By lik'ning 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? (PL 5.563-76) These lines...

...comprehensible illustrations: What surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best, though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heav'n, and things therein Each t'other like, more than on earth is thought? (5.571-76) "What if,"...

...exploits Of warring Spirits and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By lik'ning 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: 563—77) Various...

...and what surmounts the reach of human sense, I shall delineate so By lik'ning spiritual to corporeal 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? [5.572-6] 41 John Rogers...