 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 - 1855 - 900 pages
...To whom these most adhere, He rules a moment ; • Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray, By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter,...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 ta His dark... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms . . . 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 th' Almighty Maker them... | |
 | Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington - 1987 - 160 pages
...battle bring Their embryon atoms... .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.* By such conflict the matter of the universe would slowly be collected into islands, leaving comparatively... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...wings. To whom these most adhere, Hee rules a moment; Chaos Umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray By which he Reigns: next him high Arbiter Chance governs all. (II. 898-910) A critical debate has raged over whether these atoms are Democritean, Epicurean, or neither,... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 2010 - 309 pages
...nation. To whom these most adhere, Hee rules a moment; Chaos Umpire sits, And by decision more imbroils the fray By which he Reigns: next him high Arbiter Chance governs all. (PL 2:906-10) Scholars differ on when Monk determined to work the return of the monarchy, for during... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 pages
...winds, and poise Their lighter wings. To whom these most adheres 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. (PL 2.898-910) The passage both echoes and inverts Fletcher's account of the "peacefull fight and fighting... | |
 | Charles H. Kahn - 1994 - 278 pages
...Milton could ignore the new cosmology of his contemporaries and depict the Chaos prior to creation as The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither...Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight.1 1 σπίρματα πάντων... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...must, in effect, undo the God-created order by removing the God-bestowed names. Hence Milton's Chaos is 'neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, / But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt / Confus'dly' (PL 2.912-14).11 When God begins to create entities that require... | |
 | B. K. Ridley - 1995 - 208 pages
...It is, why do the elementary particles have the masses that are observed? Chance Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. Milton: Paradise Lost It is all very well having a beautiful system of ideas to apply to the case of... | |
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