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I. i.76 (7,9) [But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd] Thus all the copies, yet _earthlier_ is so harsh a word, and _earthlier happy_ for

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746

The further she rises from earth, even in the earthlier aspects of love, the fairer she becomes for me.

The Magic Skin 2007

And then, we have some further bewildering explanation about "his honourable love, so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection, nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

Her heart exalted, while it trembled, at his honorable love -- so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

QUOTATION: But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d

Quotations 1919

He found them writing verses which professed to be mystical and spiritual, but which might sometimes be suspected of earthlier meanings lurking beneath the pantheistic veil.

Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896

Yet the shy, hesitating compassion that thus had birth in me was far from being able to defeat the earlier, earthlier emotion.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

Her heart exulted, while it trembled, at his honorable love, -- so pure and lofty that it would accept nothing less than perfection nor miserably make itself contented with an earthlier nature than he had dreamed of.

Stories of Mystery Various 1885

And gild with praise from heaven an earthlier crown.

A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Compassion, divine compassion, mastered the earthlier emotion of terror in the great heart of the woman who loved him.

Blind Love Wilkie Collins 1856