There, far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination's flight,
Countless and unending orbs
In many motions intermingled,
Yet still fulfilled immutably
Eternal Nature's laws.
That bounds imagination's flight,
Countless and unending orbs
In many motions intermingled,
Yet still fulfilled immutably
Eternal Nature's laws.
Byron
"
_Paradise Lost_, ii. 1051-1053.
Compare, too--
"The magic car moved on.
Earth's distant orb appeared
The smallest light that twinkles in the heavens;
Whilst round the chariot's way
Innumerable systems rolled,
And countless spheres diffused
An ever-varying glory. "
Shelley's _Queen Mab, Poetical Works_, 1829, p. 106. ]
[112] {235}["Several of the ancient Fathers, too much prejudiced in
favour of virginity, have pretended that if Man had persevered in
innocence he would not have entered into the carnal commerce of
matrimony, and that the propagation of mankind would have been effected
quite another way. " (See St. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, xiv. cap.
xxi. ; Bayle's _Dictionary_, art. "Eve," 1735, ii. 853, note C. )]
[113] {236}[Compare--
"Below lay stretched the universe!
There, far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination's flight,
Countless and unending orbs
In many motions intermingled,
Yet still fulfilled immutably
Eternal Nature's laws. "
Shelley's _Queen Mab_, ii. _ibid. _, p. 107. ]
[cf] {239} _And with serpents too? _--[MS. M. ]
[cg] {240} _Rather than things to be inhabited_. --[MS. M. ]
[114] {241}["I have . . . supposed Cain to be shown in the _rational_
pre-Adamites, beings endowed with a higher intelligence than man, but
totally unlike him in form, and with much greater strength of mind and
person. You may suppose the small talk which takes place between him and
Lucifer upon these matters is not quite canonical.
_Paradise Lost_, ii. 1051-1053.
Compare, too--
"The magic car moved on.
Earth's distant orb appeared
The smallest light that twinkles in the heavens;
Whilst round the chariot's way
Innumerable systems rolled,
And countless spheres diffused
An ever-varying glory. "
Shelley's _Queen Mab, Poetical Works_, 1829, p. 106. ]
[112] {235}["Several of the ancient Fathers, too much prejudiced in
favour of virginity, have pretended that if Man had persevered in
innocence he would not have entered into the carnal commerce of
matrimony, and that the propagation of mankind would have been effected
quite another way. " (See St. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, xiv. cap.
xxi. ; Bayle's _Dictionary_, art. "Eve," 1735, ii. 853, note C. )]
[113] {236}[Compare--
"Below lay stretched the universe!
There, far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination's flight,
Countless and unending orbs
In many motions intermingled,
Yet still fulfilled immutably
Eternal Nature's laws. "
Shelley's _Queen Mab_, ii. _ibid. _, p. 107. ]
[cf] {239} _And with serpents too? _--[MS. M. ]
[cg] {240} _Rather than things to be inhabited_. --[MS. M. ]
[114] {241}["I have . . . supposed Cain to be shown in the _rational_
pre-Adamites, beings endowed with a higher intelligence than man, but
totally unlike him in form, and with much greater strength of mind and
person. You may suppose the small talk which takes place between him and
Lucifer upon these matters is not quite canonical.
