 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, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight,...  Works - Page 333by Maria Edgeworth - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...new world ? Whom shall we find Sufficient ? Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dirk unbottom' d infinite abyss, 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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...general's voice they soon obey'd. ....~«fa Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss. And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight Upborn with indefatigable wings Over the vmt abrupt '. VOL. Iv. »-. So both... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...to their gen' ral's voice they soon obey'd. Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight Upborn with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! So both ascend In... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...mere 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,...infinite abyss ; And through the palpable obscure find oat His uncouth way ? Or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...their general's voice they soon obey'd — - Who slmll tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight Upborn with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! So both ascend In... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...world? whom shall we find VOL II. E Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd infinite 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...to their gen'ral's voice they soon obey'd. Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight Upborn with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt! So both ascend In the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
...heighten its known signification. So in Milton, Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure, find out •* His uncouth way ? or spread his airy flight, Upborn With indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt ? B. II, The epithets... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...new world 2 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, or spread his aery flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The... | |
 | Andrews Norton - Religious education - 1818 - 1164 pages
...believe few on this side of the Atlantic will trust their feet in it : " Whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed,...through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way " TRANSCENDENTALISM. 39 There are some other results of the non-subjectivity of the spontaneous reason,... | |
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