 On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th" infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.  The Spectator - Page 291edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 266 pages
...the two exhibits to great advantage the art of the poet. The first is the Opening of hell•s gates: With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th• infernal doors; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder On a sudden open fly Observe the smoothness of the other ; —Heaven open•d wide Her ever during... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...Satan, that Death appeared soon after he was cast into hell, and that the terrors of conscience were conceived at the gate of this place of torments. The...full of Milton's spirit : • On a sudden open fly Wilh impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...speak the truth, I fear I made no little noise; when, presently coining to the following lines : " On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th 1 infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder," &c. I in great transport threw open the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...copied from a book of no greater authority : in describing the gates of hell, book ii. v. 879, he says, On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. In the history of Don Bellianis, when one of the knjghts approaches, as I remember, the castle of Brandezar,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...the two, displays to great advantage, the poet's art. The first is the opening of Hell's gates: • On a sudden, open fly, With impetuous recoil, and...infernal doors; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder B. i. Observe, now, the smoothness of the other: • Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...copied from a book of no greater authority: in describing the gates of hell, book ii. v. 879, he says, On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. In the history of Don Bellianis, when one of the knights approaches, as I remember, the castle. of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...arrow whizzes on the wing.— —POPE. and the creeking of hell-gates, in the description by Milton ; Open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th'...infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. But many beauties of this kind, which the moderns, and perhaps the ancients, have observed, seem to... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...the two exhibits to great advantage the art of the poet. The first is the opening of hell's gates § -On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil, and...infernal doors : and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder ' Observe the smoothness of the other ; -Heaven open'd wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...this resemblance we meet with an exemplification in the following passages i * ; , i On a sudden o;.in fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate ., Harsli thunder. Milton. ' * Johnson's Rambler, No. 94. The The impetuous arrow itliiztet on the... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...the two exhibits to great advantage the art of the poet. The first is the opening of hell's gates : On a sudden, open fly, . With impetuous recoil, and...infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Observe the smoothness of the other : -Heaven opened wide Her ever-dnring gates, harmonious sound !... | |
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