 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...monstrous sight Strook 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 the bottomless pit. " Hell heard the unsufferable noise ; Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would... | |
 | Oriental philology - 1920 - 454 pages
...frequently with greater clearness of imagery and with some striking 'effect, eg: Headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heaven : eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. Milton, PL vi. 864f. Down the long tower-stairs, hesitating. Tennyson, Lancelot and... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...monstrous sight Strook 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 the bottomless pit. Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound. 870 Nine days they fell; confounded Chaos... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...Struck them with horror backward, but far worse Urged them behind : headlong themselves they threw ^>own from the verge of heaven ; eternal wrath Burnt after them to the bottomless pit. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. FROM "HEBREW MELODIES.' THE Assyrian came down like... | |
 | John Milton - 1946 - 624 pages
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 | Poetry - 1948 - 556 pages
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 | John Milton - 1948 - 174 pages
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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... 
