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" Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle. "
Paradise lost, a poem. 2nd Scots ed - Page 23
by John Milton - 1746
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...him Mulciber : and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jovs Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the...
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Rhyming dictionary for the use of young poets, with an essay on English ...

Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...from heaven, leaves him, as it were, tumbling and tumbling in the verse, by a beautiful pause: — " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day." A similar and not less exquisite pause is made in the famed passage, otherwise beautiful...
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The Iliad of Homer, Volume 1

Homer - 1853 - 364 pages
...him Molciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, th' ....
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Paradise Lost: A Poem,in Twelve Books; with a Memoir of the Author; Illus ...

John Milton - 1853 - 472 pages
...him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the...
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Elements of Physical and Classical Geography

James Pillans - 1854 - 280 pages
...him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A Bummer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnoa th' Aegean...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...him Mulciber : and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the JEgeiai...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean...
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The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon

John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...Mulciber ; and how he fell 740 From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A. summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, . 745 On Lemnos,...
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The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 510 pages
...Lemnos, which was thenceforth sacred to him. Milton alludes to this story in Paradise Lost, Book I. " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the...
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A diary of a journey to the East, in the autumn of 1854, 2 vols, Volume 2

William Beamont - 1856 - 348 pages
...Vulcan, of whom ' " How he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, th' jEgean...
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