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A boundless continent,
Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night
Starless expos'd.

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. III. L. 423.


2

Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand
He took the golden compasses, prepared
In God's eternal store, to circumscribe
This universe and all created things:
One foot he centred, and the other turned
Round through the vast profundity obscure,
And said, "Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds
This be thy just circumference, O World."

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. VII. L. 224. God is like a skillful Geometrician. Sir Thomas BrowneReligio Medici. Pt. I. Sect. XVI. Nature geometrizeth and observeth order in all things. Sir Thomas BrowneGarden of Cyrus. Ch. III. The same idea appears in ComberCompanion to the Temple. (Folio 1684) God acts the part of a Geometrician. . . . His government of the World is no less mathematically exact than His creation of it. (Quoting Plato) John NorrisPractical Discourses. II. P. 228. (Ed. 1693) "God Geometrizes" is quoted as a traditional sentence used by Plato, in PlutarchSymposium. By a carpenter mankind was created and made, and by a carpenter mete it was that man should be repaired. ErasmusParaphrase of St. Mark. Folio 42.


3

The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
 | author = Milton
 | work = Paradise Lost.
 | place = Bk. XII. L. 646.


4

Le monde n'est qu'une bransloire perenne.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw. Montaigne—Essays. Bk. III. Ch. II.


5

Is it not a noble farce wherein kings, republics,

and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the vast universe serves for a theatre? Montaigne—Of the Most Excellent Men.

(See also Du Bartas)


6

Or may I think when toss'd in trouble,
This world at best is but a bubble.
Dr. Moor. MS.
 | seealso = (See also Bacon)
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 | num = 7
 | text = <poem>This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.
Moore—This World is all a Fleeting Show.
 | seealso = (See also Knox under Pride)
 | topic = World
 | page = 915
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 | num = 8
 | text = <poem>This outer world is but the pictured scroll
Of worlds within the soul;
A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book,
Whereon who rightly look
May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes,
And steer to Paradise.
Alfred Noyes—The Two Worlds.
 | seealso = (See also James, also Longfellow under Nature)
 | topic = World
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 | text = <poem>Think, in this battered Caravanserai,
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

Omar Khayyam—Rubaiyat.St. 17. FitzGerald's trans.


10

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem.
The dream is his real life: the world around him is the dream.

F. T. PalgraveDream of Maxim Wledig.


11

Quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem.

Almost the whole world are players.

Petronius Arbiter Adapted from Fragments. No. 10. (Ed. 1790) Over the door of Shakespeare's theatre, The Globe, Bankside, London, was a figure of Hercules; under this figure was the above quotation. It probably suggested "All the world's a stage."
(See also Du Bartas)


12

They who grasp the world,
The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
Must pay with deepest misery of spirit,
Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

Stephen PhillipsHerod. Act III.


13

Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds, and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him he returned this answer: "Do you not think it is a matter worthy of lamentation that where there is such a vast multitude of them we have not yet conquered one?"

PlutarchOn the Tranquility of the Mind. One world is not sufficient; he [Alexander the Great] fumes unhappy in the narrow bounds of this earth. Quoted from JuvenalSatires. X.


14

But as the world, harmoniously confused,
Where order in variety we see;
And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.
 | author = Pope
 | work = Windsor Forest.
 | seealso = (See also Rowley)
 | topic = World
 | page = 915
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 | text = <poem>My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
Than wind? The fire. And what than fire?
The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought.
Than thought?
This bubble world. What than this bubble?
Nought.
Quarles—Emblems. Bk. I. 4.
 | seealso = (See also Bacon, also Harleian MS. under Woman)
 | topic = World
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 | text = <poem>All nations and kindreds and people and tongues.
Revelation. VII. 9.


Le monde est le livre des femmes.
The world is woman's book.
Rousseau.


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| text = The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynn orderr founde.
| author = Rowley
| work = The Tournament.
| note = Same idea in {{sc|Pascal—Pensées. Bernardin de St. Pierre—Etudes de la Nature. BurkeReflections on the French Revolution. HoraceEpistle 12. LucanPharsalia. LonginusRemark on the Eloquence of Demosthenes.