The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of... The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts - Page 125by John Blair Linn - 1802 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sadden view appear The secrets rogressive virtue, and approving Heaven. These are...round a jarring world they roll, Still find them hotd Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise I Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 pages
...of Milton ; to be in a state of irreclaimable disorder, best described in the language of the poet : «A dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without...Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amid the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand." We feel that the unity, the harmony of narrative,... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...month Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep ; a dark Illimitable ocean , without...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time, and place, arc lost; where eldest ¡Night And Chaos , ancestors of Nature , hold... | |
| 1874 - 898 pages
...interest, and it gains some entirely new ideas about space of four dimensions. It passes the region where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature,...the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. At length, far out of sight of our solar system, it comes to a firmamental desert, and sees beneath... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Sawyer - 1845 - 264 pages
...downward from " heaven and earth," from which it is separated by the realm of Chaos and Old Night, "The hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without...breadth and height, And time and place are lost." In this it is but just to say that Milton differs widely from the Jewish Rabbins, who maintain that... | |
| 1845 - 636 pages
...bound, Without dimension, where length, breath, and height, And time, and place, are lost, where endless night And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal...the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand." If this passage had not the tone of a narrative, it might pass for a Lamentation on Blindness. Making... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 678 pages
...— to be in a state of irreclaimable disorder, best described in the language of the poet : — " A dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Kternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand." We feel that the unity... | |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 pages
...which, to shut, excelled their power, and, Before their eyes in sudden view appeared The secrets ol the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound,...length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, were lost. None of the Lycurguses of 1789 had the least idea of \vliui was to ensue, and even when... | |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 pages
...which, to shut, excelled their power, and, Before their eyes in sudden view appeared The secrets ol the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound,...length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, were lost. None of the Lycurguses of 1789 had the least idea of what was to ensue, and even when they... | |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 642 pages
...excelled their power, and, Before their eyes in sudden view appeared The secrets ol the hoary deep, n dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension...length, breadth- and height, And time, and place, were lost. None of the Lyctirguses of 1789 had the least idea of what was to ensue, fmd even when they... | |
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