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 shook... The Quarterly Review - Page 90edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 780 pages
...none, — Black it stood u Kight, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as bell, And shook a dreadful dart What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Never was phantom represented in a manner more vague and more terrific. The origin of Death, related... | |
| John Bowring - 1857 - 554 pages
...conveyed to and appreciated by the reader. So— " " No light, but rather darkness visible." Again — " What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." " He fell — and to this hour Had still been falling." The Buddhists, whose contemplations lead their... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...either; black it stood as night, Pierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides;... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...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. Satan was now at hand ; and from his seat, The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
| Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...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. Satan was now at hand*; and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast', With horrid strides*:... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 332 pages
...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. Many of Shakespeare's poetical pictures and ideal conceptions belong exclusively to the domain of Poetry.... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...which, had he not done it, we might have thought impossible — he has embodied Milton's words : " What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on." " In the Satan of Sir Thomas Lawrence, (the worst portrait he ever painted,) all is so material as... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...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. " There are in this fearful image only three points on which the mind can fasten, — the colour, black... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...— black it stood as Night, em Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides;... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...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." There are in this fearful image only three points on which the mind can fasten, — the colour, black... | |
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