 | Edward Whitfield - 1865 - 124 pages
...or this doubt, is introduced by the poet in the conversation of our common ancestor with Raphael: '' When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Of heaven...numbered stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot, One day and night, in all this... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...doubt remains, Which only thy solution can resolve. When I behold this goodly frame, this world, 15 Of heaven and earth consisting, and compute Their...grain, An atom, with the firmament compared And all her number'd stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible (for such 30 Their distance argues, and their... | |
 | 1866 - 412 pages
...attributed to the high Creator : something yet of doubt remains, Which only thy solution can resolve. When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Of heaven...earth a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compar'd And all her number'd stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible, for such Their distance... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 394 pages
...remains, Which only thy solution can resolve. When I behold this goodly frame, this world, u Of heav'n and earth consisting, and compute Their magnitudes,...earth a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compar'd And all her number'd stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible, for such so Their distance... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Future life - 1867 - 780 pages
...Par. Lost, VIII. 15, astonished even Adam in Paradise : — " When I behold this goodly frame, ihis world, Of heaven and earth consisting, and compute...grain, An atom, with the firmament compared And all her numt>ered star^., tli.-it seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible (for such Tneir distance argues, and... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Future life - 1867 - 780 pages
...a theory, that, according to Milton, Par. Lost, VIII. 15, astonished even Adam in Paradise : — " When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Of heaven...Their magnitudes : this earth, a spot, a grain, An atum, with the firmament compared And all her numlxjred stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 556 pages
...attributed to the high Creator 1 something yet of doubt remains, Which only thy solution can resolve. When I behold this goodly frame, this world. Of Heaven...consisting, and compute Their magnitudes; this earth, as|*>t, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compared And all her numbered stars, that seem to roll... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...Par. Lost, VIII. 1 5, astonished even Adam in Paradise : — " When I behold this goodly frame, thi« world, Of heaven and earth consisting, and compute...Their magnitudes ; this earth, a spot, a grain, An acorn, with the firmament compared And all her numbered stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible... | |
 | John Milton - 1868 - 440 pages
...the Sun, the planets, and the propose the difficulties which be- fixed stars revolved. See III. 481Of heaven and earth consisting, and compute Their magnitudes,...that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible (for such 20 Their distance argues and their swift return Diurnal) merely to officiate light Round this opacous... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...attributed to the high Creator? Something yet of doubt remains, Which only thy solution can resolve. • 14 When I behold this goodly frame, this world, Of Heaven...grain, An atom, with the firmament compared And all her number'd stars, that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible, (for such Their distance argues and their... | |
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