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 Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimiuble oct;an, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth,...height, And time, and place are lost ; where eldest Nightj And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Cf endless wars, and... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without...eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 895 Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...the hoary deep, a dark, Illimitahle ocean, without hound, Without dimension, where length, hreadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest...of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise OTendless wars, and hy confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear ' 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a' dark Illimitable ocean, without...eldest Night, And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold 89; Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,... | |
| 1905 - 726 pages
...Nature, and perhaps her grave, ' is in singular opposition to the painter's. For the poet it was ' a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy. . . . ' It was a realm beyond Hell's gateway where Chaos itself was an artificer, not an elemental... | |
| John Blair Linn - American poetry - 1804 - 192 pages
...•will bear the prominent marks of sublimity: Before their eyes, in sudden view, appear The secrets of the hoary deep ; a dark, Illimitable ocean, without...Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, APPENDIX. And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night, And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...colloquial speech. BOUND, ns [from bind.~\ i. A limit ; a boundary ; that by which any thing is terminated. Illimitable ocean ! without bound, Without dimension...length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, arc lost. MUlon. Those vast Scythian regions were separated by the natural bounds of rivers, lakes,... | |
| 1806 - 854 pages
...discusses no less a subject than the doctrines of fatalism and free-will — " a Jarfc Illimitahle ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, arclnst." We are sincerely happv in being able to plead our contracted limits as an apology for avoiding... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 524 pages
...imagination. The poet Milton seems to allude to this description of Berosus, when he speaks of The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without...where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where natare breil Perverse all monstrous* all prodigious things, Abcrr>?nib!e. un;:ttenble.... | |
| Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 492 pages
...imagination. The poet Milton seems to allude to this description of Berosus, when he speaks of The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without...where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable,... | |
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