 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of seorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue...of poetry, which rises in a great measure from its deseribing the places where they were worshipped, by those beautiful marks of rivers, so frequent among... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essayed, 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 spirits ! O... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...chief, and the peerage of Pandemonium stood in mute expectation of his voice. " Thrice he essay'cl, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." ness, and representing him as a bad man, you necessarily get some images of what is good as well as... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...wing, and half inclose 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 : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O myriads of immortal spirits ! O powers... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 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 : at last 620 Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O myriads of immortal Spirits, O... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...chief, and the peerage of Pandemonium stood in mute expectation of his voice. " Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." It was from such a representation of Satan as is given throughout the poem, that Arnold's deep religious... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...he pitied the dismal state of his followers. When he tried to address them — " Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way." Next in order to Satan ranks Beelzebub,... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pages
...which therefore Milton did not understand. Or again, when Bentley remarks that " Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth," — Par. Lost, i. 619. is suggested by Ovid's "Ter conata loqui, ter fletibus ora rigabat," — Metam.... | |
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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. 
