 Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world ! " Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unformed and void ; darkness profound Covered the abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God...  The Quarterly Review - Page 49edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
 | 1776 - 478 pages
...created, thus the Earth, Matter unform'd and void: Darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss : but on the wat'ry calm His brooding wings the Spi'rit of God outspread, And vital virtue' infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black tartareous cold... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...thus the Earth, Matter unform'd and void : Darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss : but on the wat'ry calm His brooding wings the Spi'rit of God outspread, And vital virtue' infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black tartareous cold... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...thus the earth, .Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss; but on the wat'ry calm, His brooding wings the Spirit of GOD outspread, And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black, tartareous, cold,... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...created, thus the earth, Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss; but on the wat'ry calm, His brooding wings the Spirit of GOD outspread, And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black, tartareous, cold,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...thus the Earth, Matter unform'd and void : Darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss : but on the wat'ry calm His brooding wings the Spi'rit of God outspread, And vital virtue' infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black tartareous cold... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 494 pages
...rather than our trandaUon. NEWTON. i Matter unform'd and void: Darknefs profound Cover d the abyfs : but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outfpread, And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth 236 Throughout the fluid mafs; but down ward... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...created, thus the earth, Matter uufonn'd and void: darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss; but on the wat'ry calm, His brooding wings the Spirit of GOD outspread, And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purg'd The black, tartareous, cold,... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...!' Thus God the Heaven created, thus the Earth, Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Cover'd the abyss : but on the watery calm His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread. And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth Throughout the fluid mass; but downward purg'd The black tartareous cold... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...Thus God the heaven created, thus the earth, Matter unfornj'd and void! Darkness profound Cover'd th' abyss ; but on the watery calm His brooding wings the spirit of God outspread, And vital virtue infus'd, and vital warmth <• Throughout the fluid mass ; but downward purg'd The black, tartareous,... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1819 - 408 pages
...Milton, who delights in allusions to the opinions of antiquity, poetically represents the figure " On the watery calm His brooding wings the spirit of...infused, and vital warmth, Throughout the fluid mass J." It is not impossible that the image expressed by the word might have suggested the idea * Dei Spiritum,... | |
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