 | Jonathan Richardson - Aesthetics - 1719 - 458 pages
...Sublime is confident with great Irregularity; nay that very Irregularity may produce that Noble effect; as in that wonderful Place in Milton. -Headlong themfelves...Heaven, Eternal Wrath Burnt after them to the bottomlefs fit. The laft Bad Verfe contributes to the Horrible Idea which is to be rais'd here; but if it did... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...wafteful deep : the monftrous fight Sruck thprn with horrour backward, but far worfe ' Urg'd them behind : headlong themfelves they threw Down from the verge of heaven; eternal wrath 86.5 . Burnt after them to the bottomlefs pitv Hell heard th' unfufferable noife, hell fai» Heaven... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...monstrous sight Struck them with horror backward, but i-ar worse Urged them behind ; headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven : eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Kell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...monstrous sight Struct them viitb horror backward, but far worse Urg'd them behind : Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven ; eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. Hell beard the insufferable noise, bell IOV> Htmen ruining from bemen, and would baveßed... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 494 pages
...Orcfles of Euripides purfued by the Furies. DUNSTER. Ver. 862. The monftroiu Jight Urg'd them behind : Headlong themfelves they threw Down from the verge...eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomlefs pit 866 Hell heard the unfufferable noife, Hell law Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Homer,... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pages
...monstrous sight Struck them with terror backwards, but far worse Urged them behind : headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heaven ; eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. What idea of time, what image of depth could have conveyed so tremendous an idea of... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...monstrous sight Struct them with horror backward ; but far worse Urg'd them .-hind. Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven ; eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. IX,— Alexander's Feast ; or, the power of Music .—.'in Odefor St. Cicilia's Dai/.... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...monstrous sight Struck them with horror backward ; but far worse Urg"d them behind. Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven ,• eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. 3 X. — Alexander's Feast; or, the Power of Music.— —Ax Ode for St. Cecilia's... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...monstrous sight Struck them with horror backward ; but tar worse Urg'd them behind. Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of heaven ; eternal wrath Burnt after them tu the bottomless pit. L— -Ale xander'a Pease ; orttit Power of Music.— An Oik for St. CiciUa's... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1821 - 312 pages
...monftrous fight Struck them with horror backward, but far worfe Urg'd them behind; headlong themfelves'they threw Down from the verge of Heaven ; eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomlefs pit. Hell heard th' unfufferable noife ; Hell faw Heav'n running from Heav'n, and would have fled Affrighted... | |
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Rolled inward, and a spacious gap disclosed Into the wasteful Deep. The monstrous sight Struck them with horror backward, but far worse Urged them behind; headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heaven; eternal wrath Burnt after them to... 
