 But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...  The British Essayists - Page 151edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - 1838 - 280 pages
...tautology. Every epithet should add a new idea to the word which it qualifies. So in Milton : Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite...find out His uncouth way ; or spread his airy flight Upborne with indefatigable wings', Over the vast abrupt 1 The description here is strengthened by the... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...shall we find Sufficient ^ who shall tempt with wand 'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, 5 And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle <• what strength,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, 406 And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle ?... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...shall we find Sufficient ^ who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, 5 And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle ^ what strength,... | |
 | Albert Baldwin Dod - 1840 - 114 pages
...in it : " Whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way !" There are some other results of the non-subjectivity of the spontaneous reason, which are more startling.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...But first whom shall we send In scorch of this new world Î whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall int Of sin, or legal debt ; h'or with his own laws...best dispense. He would not else, who never wanted aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle? What... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...search of this new world ? whom shall we fmd " Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet 405 " The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, " And through...obscure find out " His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight, " Upborne with indefatigable wings, " Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive 410 " The happy... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...whom shall we fmd " Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet " The dark, unbottom'd, infmite abyss, " And through the palpable obscure find out " His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight, " Upborne with indefatigable wings, '' Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive " The happy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...fierce pains not feel, Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd— Who shall tempt with wand'ring any to which the hand of a Phidias or Praxiteles T So both ascend In the visions of God . Seek 2. Under this head may be reckoned the placing the adjective... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...But first whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall em free, And brought them to another Castalie, Where Isis many a famous noursling aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle? What... | |
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