...interest, and it gains some entirely new ideas about space of four dimensions. It passes the region where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature,...the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. At length, far out of sight of our solar system, it comes to a firmamental desert, and sees beneath...

...Paradise Lost, chaos is both a place, lying between heaven and hell, and the coruler of that abyss. It is a dark Illimitable Ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...

...furnace-mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable...time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos,299 ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion...

...condition is not the least of factors that make a "hazard huge" (2.473) of his flight over the feminine, "the secrets of the hoary deep, a dark / Illimitable Ocean without bound" (2. 89 1-92). 8 But before he exits the precincts of hell, "the flying fiend" (2.643) stumbles across...

...the Utopian billiard ball, isolated from everything else by the glass case in which it sits. Space A dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and highth, And time and place are lost. Milton: Paradise Lost The job of identifying the things of nature...

...extinction of 85 percent of known species all over the world. The Solar System, Vortices, and Comets A dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and highth, And time and place are lost. — John Milton, Paradise Lost It is essential to have some grasp...

...and leave scholarly disputation on such matters to the learned in their academies. (i) Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary Deep, A dark illimitable ocean without bounds, Without dimension, where length, breadth and height And time and place are lost, With thousand...

...Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice beside Satan's awestruck surmise on surveying the wasteful deep of Chaos: the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and heighth, And time and place are lost(2.891-4) or Adam's grasp of magnitude and perspective in describing...

...is to Adam,"36 but even his lyrical prose cannot disguise the horror of ancient Night: Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and heighth, And time and place are lost. (2.890-94) Rumrich takes "Milton scholars" to task for ignoring...

...Richard Wilbur suggests to me that Poe's inspiration was in Paradise Lost, II, 890-896: Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...