 That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most,...  Mechanism of the Heavens - Page xvby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | T. H. Croft MOODY - 1838 - 344 pages
...stars, clusters, and nebulae, may all be revolving round the common centre of gravity of the universe. Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved ; yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." MILTON. That the whole heavens are concerned in bringing about the events of this world, was the opinion... | |
 | T. H. Moody - 1838 - 324 pages
...clusters, and nebuls, may all be revolving round the common centre of gravity of the universe. " . Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved ; yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." MILTOM. That the whole heavens are concerned in bringing about the events of this world, was the opinion... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...other solemn days, they spent " In song and dance ahout the saered hill ; 620 " Mystical dance ! which yonder starry sphere " Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels, " Resemhles nearest ; mazes intricate, " Eccentrie, intervolv'd, yet regular " Then most, when most... | |
 | 1841 - 478 pages
...reptiles, the whole animated creation, open to our view sublime and wonderful contemplations : the Masses intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem. Even the microscopic world alone displays such vast stores of knowledge in all the rii'h variety of... | |
 | R C. Shimeall - 1842 - 404 pages
...manifestly the true " method of nature" in all her works. It is indeed, to human reason inextricable ; -" Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." 1 Still, this philosopher finds, " even in the commencement of the sacred history," that " there is... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in...regular Then most, when most irregular they seem; And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...song, and dance — — — — Solemque suum, sua sidera norunt." ' Mystical dance, which yonder Harry sphere ' Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels...• Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, ' Eccentric, intervolv'd, yet regular, ' Then most, when most irregular they seem."1 Such in the poet's eye is the... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1844 - 454 pages
...still, still so, and own No other function " — and in the " Paradise Lost," " Mystical dance ! — -Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." Der Philosophische Egoist, p. 110. Something of the same thought with that of this poem occurs in Faust:... | |
 | Samuel Noble - 1845 - 564 pages
...and dance ubout the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of 6xed, in all her wheels, Resembles nearest ; mazes intricate,...yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem : And in their motions, Harmony divine Bo smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted."•... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...night, summer and winter, will continue their vicissitudes while the system endures, or is undisturbed by foreign causes. " Yonder starry sphere . ' Of planets...of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest mazes iatricate, Ecceatric, iatervolved, yet regular, Then most, when most irregular they seem." The stability... | |
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