 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,...  The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke - Page 133by Edmund Burke - 2008 - 572 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed bis head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this...confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFEBENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pages
...he stood as flight ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In...confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECT. IV. OF THE DIFFERENCE BET\7EEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITt WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one... | |
 | 1806 - 550 pages
...night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, . • • • . ' ' ,• V - And shook, a. dreadful dart. What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Th 'tfur 'apprehension, Shakespear, in this case, had a more prophetic spirit of anticipation, than... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 pages
...it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, con* fused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. There are two striking passages in Scripture,... | |
 | 1822 - 874 pages
...seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on, Wilh wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal." It was, he added, " A shapeless monster,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 pages
...black he stood as night : Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In...terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECTION IV. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AN» OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...colouring, he has finished the portrait of the King of terrors : The other shape &c. See v. 666 — 673. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful, part ii. sect. S. 670. — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...7 black it stood as night, 8 Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; 9 what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 10 The grisly monster moving onward, came With horrid strides, Hell trembled as lie strode. MILTON.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 pages
...difficulty of describing Death, and yet we feel satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives : — ' What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.' We have no grinning jaws nor marrowless bones here. When blood was first shed on «arth, the same great... | |
 | 1827 - 712 pages
...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 head The...confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree." The only quotation worthy to be mentioned along with the passage we have just taken down, is the well-known... | |
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