 More aery, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes ; flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed, To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual...  The Christian Pioneer - Page 1941827Full view - About this book
 | Christian life - 1848 - 600 pages
...illustration. Thus from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leavea More airy ; last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous...vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual, give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1848 - 608 pages
...being from the lowest forms of matter to the highest of spirits, with its beautiful illustration. Thus from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy ; last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes ; flowers and their fruit Man's nourishment,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...several active spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the Uavel More aery, last the bright consummate flower 486 Spirit odorous breathes : flowers and their... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...several active spheres assigned, Till body up to spirit irork, in bounds Proportioned to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk,...vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual." — Par. Lost. BV lines 469-485. ' These speculations of Milton will be received in this age with more... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...to each kind. So from the root Sprmgs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves 480 More airy, last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous...and their fruit, Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, The vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, 485 Fancy... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...several active spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the Uave» More aery, last the bright consummate fiWer 486 Spirit odorous breathes : flowers and their... | |
 | 1850 - 652 pages
...pure, As nearer to Him placed, or nearer tending, Till body up to spirit work. * * " * * * » * * * So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk :...vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual/ And all things grow more highly beautiful as we keep pace with this upward step in Nature, until we... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...several active spheres assign'd ; " Till body up to spirit work, in bounds " Proportion'd to each kind.4 So, from the root " Springs lighter the green stalk...last, the bright consummate flower " Spirits odorous 5 breathes ; flowers, and their fruit, " Alan's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd, " To vital... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...several active spheres assign'd, Till body up to spirit work, in bounds Froportion'd to each kind. So, from the root, Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves More airy; last the bright consummate flower Spirits odorous breathes: flowers and their fruit, Man's nourishment,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...smell.' (ii. 18.) For this reason, too, the poets say that flowers breathe out their fragrance : — So from the root Springs lighter the green stalk; from thence the leaves More airy; last, the bright consummate flower Spirit odorous breathes. — Paradise Lost, v. Virgil, in... | |
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