...has given countenance to this opinion by the wellknown passage which he puts into the mouth of Adam: Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep, &c. " And more strongly still by the description wherein Satan is represented in the act of...

...Scriptures, has encreased their number and the sanctity of their office, by writing that " Milliont of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep : Oft in bands While they keep watch ; or nightly walking round, With heav'nly touch of instrumental...

...wonders of the creation, and joining in the same concert of praise and adoration.' He goes on to say, ' MILTON has finely described this mixed communion of...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...

...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...

...doth send ; Or on his own dread presence to attend. It is the same conception in Par. Lost, iv. 677. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep, &c. See also On the Death of a Fair Infant, v. 59. To earth from thy prefixed seat didst post....

...gend ; Or on his own dread presence to attend. It is the same conception in Par. Lost, iv. 677Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep, &c. See also On the Death of a Fair Infant, v. 59. To earth from thy prefixed scat didst post....

...wantspectators, God want praise; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both \vhen we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night, ilow often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight...

...drcumscrifition than that of simple firesent, fiast, or future, the tense is ад aorist. Thus Milton ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. Here the verb (walk) means not that they were walking at that instant enly when Adam sfioke,...

...stolen away from company, and am remote from all human observation. But that is an alarming thought, Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep! — Par. Last. Perhaps there may be numbers of those invisible beings patrolling this same retreat,...

...men were none, That Heav'n would want speetators, God want praise : .Millions of spiritual ereatures her saered store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds, And added length to sol eeaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of eehoing hill or...