 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...supremely good, fair, and great. That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood,1 extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareos, or Typhon, whom the den By... | |
 | Virgil - 1845 - 140 pages
...nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, &c. Par. Lost, i, 192. (*) V. 209 — Fit sonitus spumante salo. The translators, who represent the... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...the creation of its inhabitant was the crowning image. His eyes " blazed " fire ; his other parts, " prone " on " the flood, extended long and large, lay floating many a rood." Then he makes the monster demon to " rear " his huge stature "from off the pool," when on each hand... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 pages
...nearest mate With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, * * * Par. Lost, bi lines 192-196. Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature;... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 pages
...nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood." Par. Lost, BI lines 192-196. "Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1880 - 174 pages
...nearest mate, With head up-lift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating...rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Ti tun. i an, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareus, or Typhon, whom the den... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1848 - 636 pages
...neareut mate With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, * * * Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames, Driven... | |
 | Astronomy - 1847 - 110 pages
...pterodactyle. " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating...a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born, that warred on Jove. Briarchus, or Typhon, whom the den By... | |
 | Astronomy - 1847 - 112 pages
...pterodactyle. • " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom tbe fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born, that warred on Jove. Briarchus, or Typhon,... | |
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Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... 
