| John Milton - 1795 - 316 Seiten
...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, and height, And time, and place are lost ; where eldest Nightj And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Cf endless... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 Seiten
...redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 895 Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 Seiten
...smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear ' 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a' dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without...breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost ; where eldest Night, And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold 89; Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of... | |
| John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 Seiten
...marks of sublimity: •" Before their eyes, in sudden view, appear The s ecrets of the hoary deep; a dark, Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without...breadth and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night, And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless... | |
| 1905 - 726 Seiten
...womb of 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...length, breadth, and height, And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy. . . . ' It was a realm beyond... | |
| John Blair Linn - 1804 - 192 Seiten
...prominent marks of sublimity: 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 height, APPENDIX. And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night, And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Laurence Howel - 1807 - 588 Seiten
...those primeval and momentous scenes. Nothing presents itself to the unassisted eye of human reason but A dark " Illimitable ocean without bound, " Without...breadth and height, " And time and place are lost." With this divine light, we have seen in the events .narrated in the preceding volume, that man was... | |
| Jacob Bryant - 1807 - 502 Seiten
...Milton seems to allude to this description of Berosus, when he speaks of The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...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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