Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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Page 410
... Belial , flown with insolence and wine . MILTON . But now a fairer form arrests the eye Of hells despotic lord : his radiant vest Of Tyrian purple , studded thick with gems , Flow'd graceful : He for courts was form'd , for feasts , For ...
... Belial , flown with insolence and wine . MILTON . But now a fairer form arrests the eye Of hells despotic lord : his radiant vest Of Tyrian purple , studded thick with gems , Flow'd graceful : He for courts was form'd , for feasts , For ...
Page 414
... Belial melts with voluptuousness , and in strains of the softest cadence he still flatters himself with an eternal reign , whilst Moloch breathes nothing but inexorable revenge and hatred of the blackest hue , The terrific traits in the ...
... Belial melts with voluptuousness , and in strains of the softest cadence he still flatters himself with an eternal reign , whilst Moloch breathes nothing but inexorable revenge and hatred of the blackest hue , The terrific traits in the ...
Page 438
... Belial led from sin To sin , runs onward in his mad career , Nor once takes warning of his better guide , Till at the barrier of life's little span Arriv'd , he stops : Death opens to his view A bideous gulph ; in vain he looks around ...
... Belial led from sin To sin , runs onward in his mad career , Nor once takes warning of his better guide , Till at the barrier of life's little span Arriv'd , he stops : Death opens to his view A bideous gulph ; in vain he looks around ...
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