 | 1909 - 502 pages
...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 The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...uncover the secrets of the cosmos : he [God] 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 The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive... | |
 | Giorgio de Santillana - 1955 - 365 pages
...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 The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1985 - 280 pages
...of the universe and telling him that God must surely be moved to laughter by men's activities: . . . when they come to model Heav'n And calculate the Stars,...wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o 'er, Cycle and Epicycle,... | |
 | S. Pines, Y. Yovel - 1986 - 312 pages
...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 / the mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive... | |
 | Eugene Victor Walter - 1988 - 276 pages
...build the world we suppose. John Milton sensed the connection in his reference to the astronomers: "Hereafter, when they come to model heav'n / And calculate...wield / The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive / To save appearances . . ."31 By construction we ratify the features of experience that we take for... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...cosmos provoke divine laughter? How are his musings about creation to be distinguished from those who "come to model Heav'n / And calculate the Stars, how...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... | |
 | Owen Barfield - 1988 - 196 pages
...Lost: 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 The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive,... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...Milton's Paradise Lost, in which he says of the astronomers: . . ., when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle,... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...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 The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive... | |
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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 The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how... 
