 either—black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 675 With...  Paradise Lost - Page 64by John Milton - 1896 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Laurence Austine Waddell - Travel - 1988 - 706 pages
...human or of the spirit world. Like Milton's embodiment of Death; “Black” each stood “as nighl, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart.” Riding through the gateway, whose massive wooden doors, nearly io feet high, embellished by iron bosses... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either - black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible...from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode. Th' undaunted Fiend what this might be admired Admired,... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky, Lawrence D. Needham - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 330 pages
...unimaginable." It is Milton's "fine description of Death" (Lectures 2: 495-96): . . . black it stood as Night; Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on ... The first simile shows what Coleridge senses... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 164 pages
...Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm, The Intercepter! —black it stouud as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness ofa kingly croson had on. (ii. 6 70—J) As so-c can see, these eight short lines pack in an astosnishing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 614 pages
...each seemed either, black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; tembk as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.' In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to she last degree. SECT.... | |
 | Annabel Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...might be called that shape has none,” a passage applied to the obese king also by its final line, “What seemed his head! The likeness of a kingly crown had on.” wanting. . . What I am above all things anxious to see is such a narrative as may, withoutformd observalwns,... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - History - 1999 - 416 pages
...republican freedom was, they believed, secure in a rising American empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook...likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. —John Milton, Paradise Lost II We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 pages
...Or substance might be call'd, that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Paradise Lost, Book II The grandest efforts... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 322 pages
...seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 17 In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree.... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 2001 - 275 pages
...limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook...seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Burke relates this description to his chosen categories of obscurity, terror, and privation. But his... | |
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