 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...find • Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, : 465 And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive Tho happy isle ? What... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826 - 490 pages
...new world? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?" &c. Of this mode of composition, it is needless to commend the beauty. Like every beauty, it carries... | |
 | 1827 - 398 pages
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 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...terrible grandeur ; while, recognizing in the heavens, a " Sea covering sea: " Sea without shore ;" Chaos seems, as it were, to have yielded to order...Who shall tempt, with wandering feet, ' The dark, unfathoraed, infinite abyss, ' And, through the palpable obscure, find out ' His uncouth way, or spread... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...shall we find Sufficient,; who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, 5 And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth...his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle ,; what strength, what art, can then 10 Suffice,... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1829 - 356 pages
...wars, and by confusion stand." ; And again : " Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottomed infinite abyss! And through the palpable obscure find...his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt! the void profound Of unessential night." What language and conceptions are here... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...signification. So in Milton, Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark. unbottom'd, infinite nbyss, And through the palpable obscure, find out His uncouth...his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt : B. II. The epithets employed here plainly add strength to the description, and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 824 pages
...amplier known, thy Saviour and thy Lord. Id. Who shall tempt with wandering feet Tbe dark unbottomed infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way \ id. Paradise Lost. Thinking by this retirement to obscure himself from God, he infringed the omnisciency... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...with wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyssy ' •'• ' 5 And through the palpable obspure find out His uncouth, way, or spread his airy flight, ' "-. Upborne with indefatigable wings,- , . • . Over the vast abcupt, ere he arrive The happy Isle } what strength, what art, can then 10... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, *>s And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth...his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive 406 palpable] The adjective ' obscure' used for a substantive,... | |
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But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way? or spread his airy flight,... 
