 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...obey'd, Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbouom'd infinite abyss, And through the pa'pahle obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy...flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrxpt! So both ascend in the visions of Cod • .B. xu Under this head may be reckoned the placing... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...wandering feet" - ' The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss ; And through the palpable obscure find oat His uncouth way ? Or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt ? The description here is strengthened by the epithets. The wandering feet, the unbottomed abyss, the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss; And through the palpable obseure find out His uneouth way ? Or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt ? The deseription here is strengthened by the epithets. The wandering feet, the unbottomed abyss, the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...word which it qualifies. So in Milton ; VV too shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd, infinite abyss ; And through the palpable obscure...Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt ? \The description here is strengthened by the epithets. The wandering feet.lhe abyss, the palpable... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 266 pages
...The dark, unbottome.^, infinite abyss ; And through the palpable obscmre find out His uncouth way t Or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrubt ? The description here is strengthened by the epithets. The wandering feet, the unbottomed abyss,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 400 pages
...its known signification. So in Milton, ' Who shall attempt with wand'ring feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure,...Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt ? B. ii. The epithets employed here plainly add strength to the description, and assist the fancy in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 436 pages
...were, or the fierce pains not feel; — Who shall tempt, with wandering feet, The dark, unbottom'd, infinite, abyss, And through the palpable obscure...Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt ? ii. 404. — So both ascend In the visions of God.— xi. 376. Under this head may be reckoned the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...voiee they soon obey'd. — i. 333. — Who shall tempt, with wandering feet, The dark, unbottom'd, infinite, abyss, And through the palpable obscure...Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt? ii. 401. — So both ascend In the visions of GodV— xi.376. Under this head may be reckoned the placing... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...astonishes every faculty of the mind. But,— Who shall tempt, with wandering feet, The dark unfathomed infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find...his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Orer the vast abrupt! • In the ocean we contemplate a Being, capable of measuring all its waters... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...we find Sufficient ? Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, 405 And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth...Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, e'er he arrive The happy isle ? What strength, what art can then Suffice.or what evasion bear him safe... | |
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Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of... 
