...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. Milton is here performing for Plato the same poetic service that Lucretius performed for Democritus...

...eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms . . . Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and...

...particles to themselves. Some would quickly disperse again, but some would become firmly established— Champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms... .To whom these most adhere, He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the...

...neglected the description of chaos that has most interested the critics: chaos as warring embryon atoms. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistry, and to Battle bring Thir embryon Atoms; they around the flag Of each his Faction, in their...

...Knowledge] O Sacred, Wise and Wisdom-giving Plant, Mother of Science. Paradix: Loit 1667, Book IX, 679 131 For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,...mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms; 132 0 Sacred, Wise and Wisdom-giving Plant, Mother of Science, Now I feel thy Power, Within me cleere,...

...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand 92 As with Ovid's "rudis indigestaque moles " or "rough, unordered mass," it is a particularly utter...

...— is just what greets Milton's Satan on the other side of the gates of Hell in the realm of Chaos. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry four champions fierce...battle bring Their embryon atoms; they around the flag Of each his faction, in their several clans, Light-armed or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or slow,...

...Landscape, Arnold, London. Washburn, AL (1979) Geocryology, Arnold, London. ICE AGES AND CLIMATIC CHANGE For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery. . . lohn Milton (1608-74) 21.1 THE TEMPO OF CHANGE IN THE LATE CENOZOIC ICE AGE It is often implicitly...

...where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos,299 ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst...champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to batde bring Their embiyon atoms: they around the flag 900 Of each his faction, in their several clans,...

...classical antiquity, but the true spirit of the ancient view still breathes through his description : For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring Thir embryon Atoms ; they around the flag Of each his faction, in thir...