 | Edward Gibbon - 1868 - 670 pages
...— - "A dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and heigbt, And time, and place, are lost : where eldest Night , And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal 'anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by contusion stand." We feel that the unity and harmony... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...appear 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 Nighf, And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and... | |
 | John E. Sitter - 1971 - 146 pages
...Milton envisions the primal state as ... a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time and place...Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. (PL, II, 892-897) Pope imitates... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...creeps, or flies'' II. 949. through the dark " Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos . . . hold Eternal anarchy ;" II. 90x3. how at last he reaches the cosmos rescued by God from the dominion... | |
 | 1819 - 788 pages
...through, " Before their eyes in sudden view" would " appear " The secrets of the hoary deep — a dark " Where length, breadth, and height, " And time and...I have heard impudently asserted, and that on the ground of Giant Whig being greatly inconsistent, contradictory, and even occasionally outrageous, in... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...book 2: a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry,... | |
 | Frederick J. Ruf - 1991 - 216 pages
...It is a dark Illimitable Ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand 92 As with Ovid's "rudis indigestaque... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...appear 890 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,299 ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy . . . There are at least two foreshadowings of "Dream-Land" in descriptions of dreams in Poe's... | |
 | George Steiner - 2002 - 354 pages
...deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. Behind Milton's "Ten thousand fadom... | |
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And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand... 
