 In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn'd With solid, as the lake with liquid fire...  Oeuvres de Delille - Page 50by Jacques Delille - 1832Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air Tint felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if...fire ; And such appear'd in hue, as when the force 130 Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shatter'd side Of thund'ring ./Etna,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...[roll'd Then with expanded wings he fleers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dulky air That felt unufual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn'd With folid, as the lake with liquid fire ; And fuch appear'd in hue, as when the force Of fubterranean wind... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Mart* tr}^ Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air . • 226 That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights,...'. . '. And such appear'd in hue, as when the force 230 Of subterranean wind transports a hill : Torn from Pelorus, or the shatter'd side--:. •. :•'..... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...hillows, leave 1' th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumhent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever hurn'd With solid, as the lake with liquid fire; And such appear'd in hue, as when the force Of suhterranean... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...Then \vith expanded wings he rteqrs his flijUt nj Aloft, incumhont on the duflcy air That felt unufual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn'd With folkl, as the lake with liquid fire : And fuch nppe:ir'd in hue, as when the force a 30 Of fuBterniu:.vi... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...roll'd In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual...fire ; And such appear'd in hue, as when the force 25a Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shatter'd side Of thund'ring JEtna,... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 406 pages
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 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...Priv'n backward slope their pointing spires, and rollM In bi'Jows, leave i'th, miilst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft,...Incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight ....*..,. his pond'rons shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and ronnd. Behind him cast ; the broad... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...Driv'n backward slope their pointing spires, and rowl'd In billows, leave i' th' inidit a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft,...incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight His pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper'd, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, i That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it weres land that ever burn'd With solid, as the lake with...subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shatter' d sida Of thund'ring ./Etna, whose combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire,... | |
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