...when God said, ' Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear !' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and...broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,...

...in their due time ; And time there is for all things, Truth hath said. PARADISE REGAINED, BOOK III. THE mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep,...

...II. A mountain huge upreared P. 66, Its broad bare back. — Altered from Milton, PL, vii, 285-7 : " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and...broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky." See also JW's Moral and Sacred Poems , I, p. 6. I never knew men make such poor lame...

...uttermost convex Of this great round." On the third the masses of land and water were differentiated, — " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds," — and vegetation sprang up in abundance. On the fourth the luminous bodies (sun, moon, and stars)...

...when God said, ' Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear !' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and...broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,...

...else so fully realised. Milton's immortal lines on the Creation instinctively occur to the mind — " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and...broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. For chaos heard His voice : Him all His train Followed in bright procession to behold...

...when God said, ' Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear!' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and...broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,...

...softening all her globe, Fermented the great mother to conceive, Satiate with genial moisture. Or again — The mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad, bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky; So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,...

...Milton, relative to the creation, in which the Angel describes to Adam how the waters subsided, and " Immediately the mountains huge appear " Emergent,...broad bare backs upheave " Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky." Book vii. 1. 285. It seemed to me, while reading this passage, as if every thing around...

...of mediaeval geographers as to the formation of mountain and valley were clearly stated by Milton: Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and...broad, bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky, So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep,...