| David Nevins Lord - English language - 1855 - 324 pages
...Satan talking to his nearest mate, "With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts beside Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanlan or earth born, that warred 8n... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...reinforcement we may gain from hope, How overcome this dire calamity; If not, what resolution from despair." Thus Satan, talking to his nearest 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,... | |
| John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair." Thus Satan, talking to his nearest 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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...incidents as are very apt tc raise and terrify the reader's imagination. Of this nature, in the book now before us, is his being the first that awakens...beside Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay flonting many a rood Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...incidents as are very apt to raise and terrify the reader's imagination. Of this nature, in the book now before us, is his being the first that awakens...from it, and the description of his shield and spear. Thu9 Satan talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed,... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 198 pages
...dire ealamity ; What reinforeement we may gain from hope ; 1g0 If not, what resolution from despair." Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head...wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 195 Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge... | |
| Middle-class education - 1857 - 70 pages
...contemporary with him ? SECTION III. MILTON'S ' PARADISE LOST." 1. Paraphrase and analyse the following: — " 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... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. SHAKSPERE. EXTRACTS FROM PAEADISE LOST. FALLEN ANGELS. 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... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...incidents, as are very apt to raise aud terrify the reader's imagination. Of this) nature, in the book hi» posture on the burning lake, his rising from it, and the description of his shield and spear :... | |
| Ohio - 1909 - 634 pages
...as an accursed superstition."4 The majestic imagery of Milton represents Satan as talking thus with his nearest mate : "With head uplift 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 ; in bulk as huge As... | |
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