“Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1692), st. 3.
“Heaven's all-subduing will,
With good the progeny of ill,
Attempreth every state below.”
Book I, Ode II, No. 2: "On the Winter Solstice", stanza vi, lines 58–60
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
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“The Providence of heaven
Has some peculiar blessing given
To each allotted state below.”
Mark Akenside (1721–1770) English poet and physician
Book I, Ode II, No. 1: "For the Winter Solstice", stanza v, lines 48–50
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
John Pierpont (1785–1866) American writer
Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "This is that incense of the heart / Whose fragrance smells to heaven" Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, stanza 11.
“The number that have been, and will be,
Above heaven, below heaven, how many there are.”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons
Context: The number that have been, and will be,
Above heaven, below heaven, how many there are.
And as many as have believed in revelation,
Believed through the will of the Lord.
As many as are on wrath through the circles,
Have mercy, God, on thy kindred.
May I be meek, the turbulent Ruler,
May I not endure, before I am without motion.
Grievously complaineth every lost one,
Hastily claimeth every needy one.
“Who has not found the Heaven — below —
Will fail of it above”
Emily Dickinson Who has not found the Heaven — below —
1544: Who has not found the Heaven — below —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Antifederalist Papers http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?subcategory=73 John DeWitt IV http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1649 (1787) <br class="br">Attributed
“He who has a good woman's love is ashamed of every ill deed.”
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Swer guotes wîbes minne hât,
der schamt sich aller missetât.
"Waz sol ein man, der niht engert", line 11; translation from Henry John Chaytor The Troubadours (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912) p. 128.
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto III, stanza 2.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Context: In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.