 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...his hand " He took the golden compasses, prepar'd " In God's eternal store, to circumscribe " This universe, and all created things : " One foot he centred, and the other turn'd . " Round through the vast profundity obscure; " And said, ' Thus far extend — thus far thy... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...procession, to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then stay'd the fervid wheels, and in his_hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Hound through the... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pages
...bright procession, to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the... | |
 | 1896 - 854 pages
...compass upon the face of the earth:" and again as described in "Paradise Lost:"— And in his hnn.l He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 378 pages
...Dante, and to justify the ways of God. Page 182. (Line 40.) Imitated by Milton, Far. Lost, vii. 227 : " In his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe and all created things." The object is to show, that however munificent the work of creation,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 pages
...Dante, aud to justify the ways of God. Page 182. (Line 40.) Imitated by Milton, far. Lost, vii. 227 : " In his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe and all created things." The object is to show, that however munificent the work of creation,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 636 pages
...prepared the heavens, I was there : when ho set a compass upon the face of the depth." Proverbs, viii. 27. In his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. Milton, PL, b. vii. 227. a The Word.} "The divine nature still... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...took the golden compasses, prepared 225 PARADISE LOST. In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things One foot he centred, and the other turn d Round, through the vast profundity obscure And said, ' Thus far extend, thos far thy bounds... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared 225 In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...bright procession, to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then stay'd the fervid wheels ; and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the... | |
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God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure : And said, " Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world... 
