 | William Sidney Gibson - English essays - 1858 - 332 pages
...and there are the obscured images and undefined terrors by which Milton surrounds the other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable...seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Many of Shakespeare's poetical pictures and ideal conceptions belong exclusively to the domain of Poetry.... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1886 - 982 pages
...Shakespeare's ' Corioianus.' He compares ' le peuple-roi ' and its rule with Milton's hell-monsters : — Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible...seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In short, he shatters the ideal of his compatriots in the most cruel and reckless fashion, and does... | |
 | David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...either side "before the gates" (649) of Hell. It is Death who is a "shapelesse shape": The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable...called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; (PL 2.666-70) while Sin takes on the more specific description of Fletcher's Sin, the dissembled woman's... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 236 pages
...about obscurity, Burke offers the following "description of Death" from 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... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible...seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short lines pack in an astonishing variety of associated meanings.... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Fiction - 1996 - 332 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... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - History - 1999 - 416 pages
...administration."76 The ascendancy of republican freedom was, they believed, secure in a rising American empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible...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 Criticism - 2001 - 286 pages
...quotation of Milton's lines about Death in Paradise Lost would serve that purpose: The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable...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... | |
 | Francois Flahault - Philosophy - 2003 - 212 pages
...shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadows seemed, For each seemed either - black it stood as...seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.* In view of Burke's quotations from the Book of Job (man annihilated in the face of the Almighty) and... | |
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The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or 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... 
