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 Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes - Page 403by William Hazlitt - 1826 - 912 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For embles (M1+ and to battle bring Their embryon atoms ; they around the Hag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...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, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| 1821 - 746 pages
...contempt. Besides this, there is " Poor Robin," in which prose and Terse, comedy and tragedy, like and to battle bring Their embryon atoms. And now, lastly, and, beyond all comparison, above its fellows,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...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, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms : they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 728 pages
...ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wan, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryo atoms ; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and hy confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery, and to hattle hring Their emhryon atoms ; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| 1832 - 404 pages
...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, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms : they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...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, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms ; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several... | |
| William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 298 pages
...Why "is there not an eternal conflict, such as the poets imagine to take place in their chaos 1 " For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms : — to whom these most adhere, He rules a moment : Chaos... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...Why is there not an eternal conflict, such as the poets imagine to take place in their chaos? " For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms : — to whom these most adhere, He rules a moment; Cluios... | |
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