 Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild,...  The British Poets - Seite 971866Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 484 Seiten
...opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive, To...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. — viii. 70. Had it not been for his enthralment to the letter of Scripture, in all probability Milton,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 487 Seiten
...opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heaven, And calculate the stars ; how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive, To...eccentric scribbled o'er. Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." The same complex system, when explained to Alphonso, king of Castile, gave rise to his noted remark,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 570 Seiten
...opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To...appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric1 scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb: Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 448 Seiten
...opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars ; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive, To...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Atready by thy reasoning this I guess, T. 11. 34 « concentriques et excentriques, de cycles et d'épicycles,... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 570 Seiten
...opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To...appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric1 scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this I guess,... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858
...opinions wide ; Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how will they wield The mighty frame! how build, unbuild, contrive, To...sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle in epicycle, orb in orb ! And every one will recollect the celebrated saying of Alphonso X., king of... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858
...opinions wide ; Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how will they wicld The mighty frame ! how build, unbuild, contrive, To...sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle in epicycle, orb in orb ! And every one will recollect the celebrated saying of Alphonso X., king of... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson - 1858
...to the Ptolemaic theory in the following lines, Paradiie Lost, VIII. 80 sqq. : How they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To...appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and excentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. That he adopted the Copernican system may... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1858
...to the Ptolemaic theory in the following lines, Paradite Lost, VIII. 80 sqq. : How they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To...appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and excentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. That he adopted the Copemican system may... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861
...wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, omit rive, To save appearances; how gird thé sphère Witli centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle,...orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Wbo art to lead thy oflspring, and suppoeest That bodies bright and greater should not serre The less... | |
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