...Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimiuble oct;an, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth,...height, And time, and place are lost ; where eldest Nightj And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Cf endless wars, and...

...and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 895 Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,...

...the hoary deep, a dark, Illimitahle ocean, without hound, Without dimension, where length, hreadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest...of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise OTendless wars, and hy confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive...

...and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear ' 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a' dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...eldest Night, And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold 89; Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,...

...attempt in vain. The light 'of Milton's soul could only lead us in such impenetrable darkness, into that illimitable ocean, without bound' without dimension;...breadth, and height, and time, and place are lost." " These then, tho' unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain; nor think tho' men were none, That...

...Nature, and perhaps her grave, ' is in singular opposition to the painter's. For the poet it was ' a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy. . . . ' It was a realm beyond Hell's gateway where Chaos itself was an artificer, not an elemental...

...dark, Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, APPENDIX. And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night,...the noise Of endless wars, and by Confusion stand. PAR. LOST, B. v. 890. These lines are a specimen of the sublimity of obscurity. In the parable of the...

...colloquial speech. BOUND, ns [from bind.~\ i. A limit ; a boundary ; that by which any thing is terminated. Illimitable ocean ! without bound, Without dimension...length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, arc lost. MUlon. Those vast Scythian regions were separated by the natural bounds of rivers, lakes,...

...discusses no less a subject than the doctrines of fatalism and free-will — " a Jarfc Illimitahle ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, arclnst." We are sincerely happv in being able to plead our contracted limits as an apology for avoiding...

...primeval and momentous scenes. Nothing presents itself to the unassisted eye of human reason but A dark " Illimitable ocean without bound, " Without dimension...breadth and height, " And time and place are lost." With this divine light, we have seen in the events .narrated in the preceding volume, that man was...