 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
 | John Milton - 1899 - 372 Seiten
...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this I guess, 86 Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That...serve The less not bright, nor Heaven such journeys IMJJ Earth sitting still, when she alone receives The benefit : Consider first, that great 90 Or bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - 366 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. Raphael to Adam, PARAPISE LOST, BOOK VIII. HOW first began this heaven which we behold Distant so high,... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - 1907 - 342 Seiten
...ASTRONOMICAL THEORIES " 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." ' AT the time of the destruction of the Alexandrian library, the Greek astronomers had arrived at certain... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 302 Seiten
...practice of the Church' (Reynolds, Bacon's Essays, p. 123). Cf. Milton, Paradise Lost, vin. 81 — 84: 'How build, unbuild, contrive, . To save appearances...eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.' to save the phenomena, ie 'to frame a hypothesis that should not be inconsistent with the phenomena... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1909
...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." * sedette in grembo a Dido : Virgil (/£». i, 657-722) relates how Venus sent Cupid under the semblance... | |
 | John Milton - 1924 - 419 Seiten
...and not divulge His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left...bright, nor Heaven such journeys run, Earth sitting si ill, when she alone receives The benefit. Consider, first, that great 90 (Or bright infers not excellence.... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 474 Seiten
...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 ! — Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII. The epicycles of Copernicus numbered however... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 618 Seiten
...contrive To save appearances ; how gird the Sphere i With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, . I Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb. Already by thy reasoning...guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest rt-,' That bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright, nor Heaven such journeys... | |
 | Thomas Stenhouse - 1922 - 191 Seiten
...Lost, Bk. V). ' 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." Yet in the words, " The earth that might with far less compass move," he inclines to the new teaching... | |
 | John Milton - 1924 - 419 Seiten
...Epicycle, orb in orb. \Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and suppoaest That bodies bright and greater should not serve The...bright, nor Heaven such journeys run, Earth sitting si ill, when she alone receives The benefit. Consider, first, that great 90 Or bright infers not excellence.... | |
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