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" Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, 'Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world! "
The Vision; Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. Tr. by ... - Page 272
by Dante Alighieri - 1822
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...bright procession, to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then stay'd the fervid wheels; and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepar'd...circumscribe This universe and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, ' Thus...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 9-10

British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...of his might. Then stay'd the fervid wheels ; and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Hound through the vast profundity obscure, And said, •...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...stretching a line upon it: and in another place as garnishing the heavens, stretching out the north In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, Thus...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...line upon it: and in another place as garnishing the heavens, stretching out the north c 3 BOOK VII. In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, Thus...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...bright procession, to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses prepar'd...store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created tilings : One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And...
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Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind: To which are Added, An Essay on ...

Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...the earth ; or in the poetical language of Milton, In his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, Thus...
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Nollekens and His Times: Comprehending a Life of that Celebrated Sculptor ...

John Thomas Smith - Artists, British - 1828 - 502 pages
...compasses to describe the destined orb of the world,* " when he set a compass upon the face of the earth." in His hand He took the golden compasses, prepar'd...circumscribe This universe and all created things : One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author

John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...hright procession to hehold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepar'd In God's eternal store, to circumscrihe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Hound...
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Moral and Sacred Poetry

Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...of his might. Then stay'd the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses prcpar'd In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things ; One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round tbrough the vast profundity obscure, And said, Thus...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...his might. Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared 825 In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things : One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, Thus...
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