| Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...view ; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew : Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky ; Nor, poised, did on her own foundations lie : Nor seas about the...unnavigable. No certain form on any was imprest ; All were confused, and each disturbed the rest. For hot and cold were in one body fixt, And soft with hard,... | |
| Edward A. Rice - 1853 - 326 pages
...makes water to have been the principle of all things, and they all refer to an original chaos, When air was void of light, and earth unstable, And water's dark abyss unnavigable, All were confused and each disturbed the rest.' Ovin. No certain form on any was imprest, The story... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pages
...Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky ; Nor, pois'd, did on her own foundations lie ; Nor seas ahout the shores their arms had thrown ; But earth, and...were in one. Thus air was void of light, and earth unstahle, And water's dark ahyss u:mavi gahle. No certain form on any was imprest ; All were confus'd,... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 pages
...view ; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew; Nor yet was earth suspended in tho sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundations lie; Nor seas about the...water, were in one. Thus air was void of light and each unstable, And water's dark abyss un-navigable. No certain form on any was impressed ; All were... | |
| Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 888 pages
...their arms had thrown, But earth, and air, and water, were in one. Thus air was void of light and each unstable, And water's dark abyss un-navigable. No certain form on any was impressed ; All were confused and each disturbed the rest : For hot and cold were in one body fixed,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 678 pages
...lie ; Nor seas about the shores their arms had thrown, But earth and air and water were in one. Then air was void of light, and earth unstable, And water's dark abyss unnavigable j No certain form on any was impressed, All were confused, and each disturbed the rest ; For hot and... | |
| 1866 - 336 pages
...No moon did yet her blunted horns renew : Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky ; it Nor, pois'd, did on her own foundations lie : Nor seas about the...earth unstable, And water's dark abyss unnavigable. ao But God, or Nature, while they thus contend, To these intestine discords put an end. Then earth... | |
| 1866 - 992 pages
...view ; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew ; Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky ; Nor poised, did on her own foundations lie ; Nor seas about the...thrown, But earth, and air, and water, were in one." (Ovid.) "Gen. i. 2. 'And God moved upon the face of the waters.' '' ' Thales, the Milesian, asserted... | |
| John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
..., No moon did yet her blunted horns renew : Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky ; u Nor, poised, did on her own foundations lie : Nor seas about the...one. Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable, A ud water's dark abyss unnavigable. " No certain form on any was impress'd ; A ll were confused, and... | |
| 1872 - 710 pages
...view ; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew : Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky ; Nor, pois'd, fancy made him not her slave, To mock him with her...miseries. No chronic tortures racked his aged limbs, disturbed the rest. For hot and cold were in one body fix'd, And soft with hard, and light with heavy,... | |
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