And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery... The Classic Poets: Their Lives and Their Times, with the Epics Epitomised - Page 409by William T. Dobson - 1879 - 452 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1909 - 504 pages
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| Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...by Confufion ftand. for Hot, Cold, Moift, and Dry, four Champions fierce, Strive here for Maft'ry, and to Battle bring Their Embryon Atoms: They around the Flag Of each his Faftion, in their feveral Clans, Light-arm'd or heavy, fharp, fmooth, fwift, or flow, Swarm populous... | |
| John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...by confufion ft and. For hot, cold, moift, and dry, four champions fierce Strive here for maiftrie, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms ; they around the flag ' Of each his faction, in their feveral clans, Light-arm 'd or heavy, lharp, fmooth, fwift .or flow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...lost ; where eldest Nightj And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Cf endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold,...moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry, and to battle brine; Their embryon atoms ; they around the flag 900 Of each his faftion, in... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 895 Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...deep, a dark, Illimitahle ocean, without hound, Without dimension, where length, hreadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night And...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
...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 89; Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,... | |
| John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...deep; a dark, Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night,...the noise Of endless wars, and by Confusion stand." PAR. LOST, JU. V. 890* These lines are a specimen of the sublimity of •bscurity. 1.4 In the parable... | |
| 1905 - 726 pages
...was ' 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. . . . ' It was a realm beyond Hell's gateway where Chaos itself was an artificer, not an elemental... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...[а>*;х.'"-] Want of government ; a state in which every man, is unaccountable ; a state without magistracy. Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the ntnseOf endless wars, and by confusion stand. Milt. Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from... | |
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