 Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere, He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray, By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.  Popular Astronomy - Page 485by Simon Newcomb - 1878 - 578 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...and poise 905 Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere, He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray, By which he...arbiter, Chance governs all. Into this wild abyss, 910 The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 pages
...chain, that is nowhere held up or sustained save by a dim abstraction, — where " Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he...reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all. " Mind resumes its dominion over the vast expanse, and drives these spectres back to their native realm... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 488 pages
...chain, that is nowhere held up or sustained save by a dim abstraction, — where " Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he...reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all. " Mind resumes its dominion over the vast expanse, and drives these spectres back to their native realm... | |
 | 1876 - 602 pages
...JOHN WOODWARD. "PARADISE LOST," book ii. vv. 910-920(1668, the first edition) : — "Into this wilde Abyss The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of...Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless til1 Almighty Maker them... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 pages
...whirlwind — diet " Chance governs all. Into this wild abyss, The womb or Nature, and perhaps her grave,1 Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mix'd Confus'dly; and which thus must ever fight, Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...sits, And by deeision nfore imbroils the fray, By whieh he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chanee governs all. Into this wild abyss, "° The womb of...nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant eauses mix'd Confusedly, and whieh thus must ever fight, Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain 915... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...the fray By which he Reigns : next him htgh Arbiter Chance governs all. Into this wilde Abyfs, 910 The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all thefe in thir pregnant caufes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus muft ever fight, Unlefs th' Almighty... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 426 pages
...distinctly characterized masses, all things would be mingled in chaotic confusion. There would be " Neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly." While we believe that there is a certain intensity of force and its equal diffusion, which locks together... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...wings. To whom thefe moft adhere, Hee rules a moment; Chaos Umpire fits, And by decifion more imbroiles the fray By which he Reigns : next him high Arbiter Chance governs all. Into this wilde Abyfs, 910 The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...winds, and poise Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere, He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he...air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mix'd Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials... | |
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