| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...performances." A great English poet says : — " Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' Arctic sky, and from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war1*." The last comet employed in an astrological character... | |
| John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood 707 Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length" of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Levell'd his deadly... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...705 More dreadful and deform: on th' other side, Incenst with indignation Satan stood Unterrifi'd; and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 7/0 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Levell'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No... | |
| Virgil - Agriculture - 1871 - 376 pages
...that carries drought 396. " On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of...Ophiuchus huge In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." Milton, PL, b. ii. 397. " And now the Sunne hath reared upp His fierie-footed... | |
| John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...705 More dreadful and deform : on th' other side, Incenst with indignation, Satan stood Unterrifi'd ; and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Levell'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No... | |
| John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Levell'd his deadly... | |
| Astronomy - 1873 - 336 pages
...Lycidas. " The well-known allusion to the disastrous influences of comets, II., 708, &c., when Satan, " like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." And XII., 633, &c. :— " The brandish'd sword of God before them... | |
| Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...tenfold More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly... | |
| John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...705 More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Levell'd his... | |
| Publius Vergilius Maro - 1875 - 562 pages
...Milton is more Virgilian than Homeric in Paradise Lost 2. 708 foil. :— «Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge, In tho arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." 276 —286.] ' Turnus, unterrified... | |
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