 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...fiend Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Was moving toward the shore; his pond'rous shield, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Rivers, or mountains,... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 308 pages
...hand the flames, Driven backward, slope their pointing spires, and roll'd In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights, if it... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 526 pages
...on each hand the flames Driv'n backward slope their pointing spires, and 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 weight, till on dry land He lights, if it... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...hand the flames, Driv'n backward, slope their pointing spires, and roll'd In billows, leave i" tu' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers...incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...hand the flames, Driven backward, slope their pointing spires, and, rolled, In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers...incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burned With solid, as the lake with liquid fire... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1836 - 432 pages
...their beauty and variety. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior fiend Was moving towards the shore : his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...Was moving toward the shore: his uoad'TO\i» shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, BchinJ him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist viewe At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1836 - 348 pages
...hand the flames, Driven backward, slope their pointing spires, and roll'd In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, ThSit felt unusual weight; till on dry land With solid, as the... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...on each band the flames DriVn backward slope their pointing spires, and, rolTd In billows, leave i* th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his night Aloft, Incumbent on the dti-ky air That felt unusual weight— <•• • His pond'rous shield.... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...new courage and revive. He scarce had ceas'd, when the superior Fiend Was moving tow'rd the shore; his pond'rous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large,...circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
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th' midst 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, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders... 
