 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - English language - 1855 - 324 pages
...destruction seek — Deliver'ance for us all. — This en'terprize — None' shall partake with me. " As' when heav'en's fire — Hath sca'thed the forest...pines — With sing'ed top, — their stately growth, though bare', — Stands' on the blast'ed heath." Those opening with a trochee, and closing on the... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 864 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For hia revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd ; as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. (a) Paraphrase this passage. (V) Quote the lines in which... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...place of logy, part i. chap. iii. For a further annihilation, account of this feeling, consult, also, Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed 2 the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | Gazetteers - 1856 - 986 pages
...the melted rock,— an image recalling those beautiful lines: ' As when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines. With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.' " The volcanic nature of JR. is exactly similar to that... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...winter In storm perpetual, could not move the gods To look that way thou wert. Winter's Tale, ill. 3 As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though hare Stands on the hlasted heath. PL, i. 615. for God had thrown That mountain as his garden... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 pages
...demeuré en sûreté assis « sur son trône, maintenu par une ancienne réputation, par le conHat scath'd the forest oaks or mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 198 pages
...his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath seath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak : whereat their doubled ranks... | |
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Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately... 
