...furnace mouth tlast forth redounding smoke and ruddy llame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep ; a dark Illimitable...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and liighth, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...

...draw us forth from the chaotic abyss, worse than " Serbonian bog," in which we are now plunged, — "A dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without...eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand P" What think you of my suggestion...

...unmeasurable. If we approach the mythical world from this side it always remains— to use Milton's words— a dark illimitable ocean, without bound, without dimension,...length, breadth and height, And Time and place are lost. There is no natural phenomenon and no phenomenon of human life that is not capable of a mythical interpretation,...

...furnace-mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary Deep — a dark Illimitable...bound, Without dimension : where length, breadth, and highth, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...

...great modern treatment of these "secrets of the hoary deep." Milton envisions the primal state as ... a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension,...eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. (PL, II, 892-897) Pope imitates...

...head, hands, wings, or feet And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies'' II. 949. through the dark " Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension,...and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos . . . hold Eternal anarchy ;" II. 90x3. how at last he reaches the cosmos rescued by God from the dominion...

...rendered with the concreteness to which mythopoeic thought is prone a chaos such as Milton conceived: .... a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension,...length, breadth and height And time and place are lost.* Nothing could occur in this chaos until the miraculous appearance of the creator heralded the first...

...upon this point. thought depends. In the description of Satan's journey across Chaos, Satan discovers The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night f And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...

...rendered with the concreteness to which mythopoeic thought is prone a chaos such as Milton conceived: .... a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension,...length, breadth and height And time and place are lost.3 Nothing could occur in this chaos until the miraculous appearance of the creator heralded the...

...through, " Before their eyes in sudden view" would " appear " The secrets of the hoary deep — a dark " Where length, breadth, and height, " And time and...eldest night, " And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold " Eternal monarchy, amidst the noise " Of endless wars, and by confusion stand." And that not a vestige...