 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd ; and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O Myriads of immortal Spi'rits, O Powers... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. O Myriads of immortal Spirits! O Powers Matchless,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 324 pages
...splendors flung For his revolt Mark the effect : - he now prepared To speak • Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth llinil< i. fiiH, &c. Nor has Virgil suffered the unnatural and abandoned Mezentius, equally the contemner... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he e'ssay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O Myriads of immortal Spirits ! O Powers... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn. Tears, such as angels...catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry, which rises in a great measure from its describing the places... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.— i. 61S. The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...wing, and half inclose him round Vith all his peers : attention held them mute : [Tirice he assay 'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last 620 vVords interwove with signs found out their way. " О myriad? of immortal spirits! О... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last 620 Words interwove with sighs found out their way. O Myriads of immortal Spi'rits, O Powers... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute, Thrice he assay "d ; and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth ; at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O Myriads of immortal Spirits ! O Powers... | |
 | Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 430 pages
...fruitlesse,' is a sentence that seems to have been written by a reader of Milton :— ' Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.' " On this comment I have only to remark, that Milton, or his works, never occurred to me at the moment... | |
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Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. 
