| Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 pages
...uncertainty of strokes and colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his... | |
| François Flahault - Good and evil - 2003 - 216 pages
...The sublime erupts in Paradise Lost, particularly when Milton depicts Death: . . . The other shape If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable...joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadows seemed, For each seemed either - black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as... | |
| Amanda Gilroy - Art - 2004 - 224 pages
...Lost — the exemplary instance of which is the portrait of Death in Book 2 line 666: The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; 16 See Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry, pp.... | |
| Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 400 pages
...shapeless, indecipherable. Quoting the Miltonic description of death in Paradise Lost, The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called the shadow seemed. For each seemed either; black he stood as night (II, 666-73) Burke comments, 'In... | |
| Philip Shaw - Sublime, The - 2006 - 192 pages
...preceded, two pages earlier, by the description of Death in book 2 of Paradise Lost'. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his... | |
| Edoardo Crisafulli - History - 2003 - 364 pages
...characterised by "gloomy pomp" and "uncertainty of strokes and colouring" (ibid): The other shape. If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 574 pages
...has finished the portrait of the king of terrors : * Part IV. sect. 14, 15, 16. " The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed cither; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart.... | |
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