 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
 | Ida Langdon - 1924 - 362 pages
...Shakespeare 10. • See below, pp. 75. description of the ' mystical dance' of the angels, he speaks of mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular; Then most, when most irregular they seem;1 and again, he calls the songs in the Law and Prophets superior, not in 'divine argument alone,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...dance about the sacred Hill — Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels Resembles nearest; mazes intricate,...yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones that God's own ear Listens delighted.... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...Antimetabole. Repeating a phrase the other way round, eg V 623 about the dancing of the angels and the stars : mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem. Auxesis. Phrases arranged in a climactic order of sense, as with Raphael talking about the moon: 'Her... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...and dance about the sacred hill, Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,...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.... | |
 | Gerald Eades Bentley - 1967 - 534 pages
...and dance about the sacred Hill, Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets and of fixed in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,...regular Then most, when most irregular they seem: And in their motions harmony divine. (v, 619-25) This heavenly harmony is the final wisdom of the dance,... | |
 | Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - 2001 - 284 pages
...Lost (Book V, 620-624) which Somerville quotes briefly in the "Preliminary Dissertation." (Mech xv) Yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in...regular Then most, when most irregular they seem. the mazy and mystic dance of the planets and their satellites - "cycle on epicycle, orb on orb" - from... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pages
...of: varying for the "yonder starry sphere / of planets and of fixed in all her wheels" that dances in "mazes intricate, / Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular / Then most, when most irregular they seem" (5.620-24), shifting to a triplet for the Trinity, and giving three strong beats in other lines about... | |
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