 | Great Britain - 1865 - 708 pages
...adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space which measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal." The Anglo-Saxon Paraphrase of Cœdmon... | |
 | Bible - 1866 - 534 pages
...adamantine chains and 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 vanquished."' Such was the difference produced by three centuries and a half. But to return to our... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1866 - 704 pages
...adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space which measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal." The Anglo-Saxon Paraphrase of Credmon... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1866 - 534 pages
...adamantine chains and 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 vanquished."' Such was the difference produced by three centuries and a half. But to return to our... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...adamantine chains and 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, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal : but his doom Reserved him to more... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...Circumlocution may be employed with poetic effect, as in Milton : — " Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished rolling in the fiery gulf." There is elegance in Cowley's periphrasis — " set himself... | |
 | Robert (de Boron) - Arthurian romances - 1868 - 428 pages
...mirent à descendre du haut des cieux dans le fond des enfers : Nitir times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vainquished, rolling in the fierygulf... (Book l.) « troisième génération séjournent dans l'air... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...adamantine chains and penal fire, AVho 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, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal. But his doom Reserved him to more... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...peculiar to himself. From PARADISE LOST. (Book I. 50.) 95. HELL. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal. But his doom 5 Reserved him to more... | |
 | Erasmus Manford - Future punishment - 1870 - 448 pages
...adamantine chains and penal fires Who durst defy Omnipotence to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf." If the gentleman thinks that is all Gospel, I pity him. He... | |
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Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf Confounded though immortal... 
