heaven of heavens

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He said, and spreading bright his ampler wing, Flew to the heaven of heavens; the meek man bowed Adoring, and, with pensive thoughts resigned, Bent from the aching height his lonely way.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George

Behold, the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded.'—Then the other side would answer, 'The Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.'

From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Warner, Susan

Up led by thee, Into the heaven of heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William

"O, did your Spring but once a century waken, The heaven of heavens for this would be forsaken."

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

Can he enclose within a little silver box that Almighty One whom the heaven, even the heaven of heavens, cannot contain?

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken