 To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove...  The Debater a New Theory of the Art of Speaking... - Page 173by Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With ?.ll his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears? such as Angels weep, burst forth : at last 610 Words interwove with sighs found out their way. O Myriads of immortal Spi'rits, O Powers Matchless,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers. Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. At last 620 Words interwove with sighs found out their way. O Myriads of immortal Sp'rits, O Pow'rs Matchless,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last 6 jo Words interwove with sighs, found out their way. O MYRIADS of immortal Spi'rits, O Powers Matchless,... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pages
...wing, ami half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ~. The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry,... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round, With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears such as angels weep burst forth. Throughout the poem, the infernal excite more interest than the celestial personages, because their... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1805 - 364 pages
...fruitlesse' is a sentence that seems to have been written by a reader of Milton : ' Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.' " On this comment I have only to remark, that Milton or his works never occurred to me at the moment... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 384 pages
...— — • Peradise Lost, rer. 490. t Ver- 392. This form he has exactly repeated in Paradise Lost. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth *. — In Comus. — — A perpetual feast of nectar' J sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. In Paradise... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 pages
...bend, From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry,... | |
 | Erinaceus (pseud.) - 1809 - 78 pages
...begin to swell, " Nor can the good receive, nor bad expel." — DHYDEN. , . 40 And thus bespeak, Sic." Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn,...such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last "Words, intenvove with sighs, found out their way." — MILTON. 43 You feel, with me, #c. — His lordship... | |
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