 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...If this be learning, most of all deceived. Great crimes alarm the conscience, but she sleeps 185 ' He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes,...the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how huild, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances. Par. Lost, viii. 76. • What win I, if I gain the thing... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...divulge His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes...how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb. Already... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...amusement that some men should be rash enough to try to uncover the secrets of the cosmos : he [God] his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes,...how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances. 76 After the fall the earth suffered a change in its climate : it became seasonal, either because God... | |
 | Giorgio de Santillana - Biography & Autobiography - 1955 - 365 pages
...divulge His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes...how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. How... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - History - 1985 - 280 pages
...that God must surely be moved to laughter by men's activities: . . . when they come to model Heav'n And calculate the Stars, how they will wield The mighty...how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o 'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb . .... | |
 | S. Pines, Y. Yovel - History - 1986 - 312 pages
.../ his secrets to be scanned by them who ought / rather admire or, if they list to try / conjecture. He his fabric of the Heavens / hath left to their...how build, unbuild, contrive / to save appearances, how gird the Sphere / with Centre and Eccentric scribbled o'er, / Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb. (Paradise... | |
 | Owen Barfield - Philosophy - 1988 - 196 pages
...the astronomers when he wrote in the Eighth book of Paradise Lost: Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes,...how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Nor... | |
 | Eugene Victor Walter - Nature - 1988 - 276 pages
...sensed the connection in his reference to the astronomers: "Hereafter, when they come to model heav'n / And calculate the stars, how they will wield / The...how build, unbuild, contrive / To save appearances . . ."31 By construction we ratify the features of experience that we take for granted and accept.... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...laughter? How are his musings about creation to be distinguished from those who "come to model Heav'n / And calculate the Stars, how they will wield / The mighty frame, how build, unbuild" the universe (VIII. 79-81)? And if the criterion for proper knowledge is usefulness, of what immediate... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...the famous satirical lines from Milton's Paradise Lost, in which he says of the astronomers: . . ., when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars,...how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Reading... | |
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Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield... 
