Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle: they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe. The Observatory - Page 2991911Full view - About this book
| 1810 - 482 pages
...aereal hall. Some say he bid his angels turn ascanse The poles of earth twire ten degrees and roor« From the sun's axle, they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe; some say the sun Was bid tmn reins from th' equinoctial road Like distant breadth to Taurus with thctevcK Atlantic Sisters,... | |
| Charles Lucas - 1810 - 372 pages
...probably further availed myself of it, where he says— " Some say He bid His Angels turn ascance " The Poles of Earth, twice ten degrees and more " From the Sun's axle," &c. Paradise Losf, Book x. d Jesus says to Pilate," He that delivered me unto thee, " hath the,greater... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...is conceived with that sublime imagination which was so peculiar to this great author. Some say he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice...axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.We are in the second place to consider the infernal agents under the view which Milton has given... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...aereal hall. Some say he bid his angels turn askance The polei of earth twice ten degrees and more 670 From the sun's axle; they with labour push'd Oblique...centric globe: some say the sun Was bid turn reins from th' equinoctial road Like distant breadth to Taurus with the seren Atlantic Sisters, and the Spartan... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 388 pages
...bent about twenty-three degrees and a half out of the perpendicular as it is described by Milton : He bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more From the sun's axis. In this case you observe, that all the parallel circles, except the equator, are divided into... | |
| John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pages
...variety is occasioned by the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit. " Some say he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice...sun's axle : they, with labour, push'd Oblique the central globe." MILTOK. The earth's orbit being elliptical, and the sun constantly keeping in one and... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...Sea, air, and shore ; the thunder when to roll \Vith terror through the dark aereal ball. Some say, he bid his Angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice...the sun Was bid turn reins from the equinoctial road Lake distant breadth to Taurus with the seven Atlantic Sisters, and the Spartan Twins, Up to the Tropic... | |
| 1829 - 632 pages
...philosopher, Milton, in his inimitable poem. Paradise Lost, has die following passage. • Some say He bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more from the ion's axle ; they with labour pusli'd OWiqoe the centric globe : some say the sun Vas bid turn from... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...imagination which was so peculiar- to this great author : ' Some say he bid his angels turn ascance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more From the sun's axle; they with labour push/it Oblique the centric globe .' We are in the second place to consider the infernal agents under... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...when to roll With terrour through the dark aereal hall. Some say he bid his angels turn ascansc 'Hie , and when thou fall'st. Moon, that now meet'st the orient Sun, now flj-'st, With Like distant breadth to Taurus with the seven Atlantic Sisters, and the Spartan Twins, Up to the tropic... | |
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