 | 860 pages
...danger of hell, but you yourself are on the edge of the precipice — a gust of wind may hurl you " With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire." As the Indian, to kill his foe, dips his arrows in poison, so we, to kill sin, must dip them in the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd,...fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal : But his doom Rescrv'd him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...batde proud, With vain attempt. Him th' Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...night 50 To mortal men, he, with his horrid crew, Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal; but his doom Reserved him to more... | |
 | Christopher Edgar, Ron Padgett - Education - 1994 - 308 pages
...we skip the first sentence: ... Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arm. The main problem for one group of my tenth graders was the last line. Where do you put it? They... | |
 | Alice K. Turner - Devil in art - 1993 - 324 pages
...Michael and the angelic troops, Satan and his host are: Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...there to dwell In Adamantine chains and penal Fire. For nine days they fall through Chaos till: Hell at last Yawning receiv'd them whole, and on them clos'd,... | |
 | David L. Smith, Richard Strier, David Bevington - History - 2003 - 312 pages
...hell in Book 1 of Paradise Lost: Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal lire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal... | |
 | Emery H. Bancroft - Religion - 1977 - 406 pages
...universe into the eternal burnings. Him the almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...In Adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. — Milton Doctrinal statement: Satan is under a perpetual curse; his conquest... | |
 | Charles O. Hartman - Literary Collections - 1996 - 220 pages
...the point (i, lines 44-49): . . . Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to Arms. Eschewing rhyme, Milton obviously did not abandon all prosodic conventions.... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down OrmsBy Macf&igkt Mitchett To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.... Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.135... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...of mankind. 7548 Paradise Lost Him the almighty power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With h the omnipotent to arms. 7549 Paradise Lost A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace... | |
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Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. 
