| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed bis head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...Or substance might be call'd that shadow seemM, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 6;o Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a. dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat... | |
| Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...not represented his image terrible, but loathsome and nauseous. On Of Death he says, black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. • But Milton's judiciousness in selecting such circurflstances as tend to raise a just and natural... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd hii head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...that shadow seemed, Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; For each seemed cither; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a deadly dart; what seemed Ids head The likeness of a kingly cromi hiiii on. As an evidence how well... | |
| Beilby Porteus - Death - 1803 - 68 pages
...• just appropriation of our great bard's description of the same object : . • - black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. vii In the employment of Sin, pointing... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd; For each seem'd either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Martyrs - 1810 - 392 pages
...or limb , Or substance might be rail 'd thaï shadow seem'd , For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadfuldart; what seem'd his head , The likunrss of a kingly crown had on. Par. Lost. II, 666. XIIIe.... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 448 pages
...or limb ; Or substance might be called, which shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a deadly dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. " The union of deformity... | |
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