from his Paradise Lost : -Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day || or the sweet approach of even or morn Celestial voices to the midnight air Sole || or responsive each to other's note. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook... Elements of Criticism - Page 292by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1829 - 476 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Dtspair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; 49a And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though ovlvtwoVi With vows, as their chief good, and fuv«\\vov*> His best«. A space, till firmer... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...approach of even or morn. Celeftial voices to the midnight-air Sole ]| or refponfive each to others note. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook || but delay'd to ftrike. -And wild uproar Stood rul'd || flood vaft infinitude confin'd. -And hard'ning in his ftrength... | |
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...behold Both day, and night. How often from the steep • ; Of echoing hill, or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air Sole, or responsive each to other's note, . , * Singing their great Creator I oft, in bands, While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...works behold Both day and night: how often from the steep 68e Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk With heav'nly... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans ; Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; 49' And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope. Sight so deform what heart of rock... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...works behold, Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? Oft in bands 684 While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk With... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...works bchol< Bolh day and night: hew often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket} have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air* Sole> or responsive each to other's note> Singing their great Creator? Oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding wai With heavenly... | |
| Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 184 pages
...first syllable of the verse has been an admir'd beauty in Homer and Milton. "' EX $'e<nta.<rev~ e$. II. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike. PL We have this beauty, — coinciding with the best examples, though underiv'd from them, — in a... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1800 - 374 pages
...syllable of the verse has been an adniir'd beauty in Homer and Milton. Nv¿ ¿5Ø75¿5y E7¿r¿Oç. II. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike. PL We have this beauty,.—coinciding with the best examples, though suideriv'd from them,—..in a... | |
| George Atkinson (serjeant-at-law.) - 1801 - 372 pages
...numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead,... | |
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