 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
 | 1862 - 830 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." — Par. Lost. B. II. Following the inspired statement, that " death came into the world by sin," this... | |
 | Thomas Galland Horton - 1863 - 344 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.' And as 'the monster moving onward, came, With horrid strides, hell trembled as he strode.' There are... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...either; black it stood as night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, A"nd 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;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 578 pages
...seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECTION... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 pages
...either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECTION... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...DEATH. 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1858 - 576 pages
...ill-defined. There would be the presentiment of a fonn, as in our great poet's conception of Death:— ' what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.' But there would be none of that systematic and symmetrical development of the doctrine which characterizes... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1869 - 484 pages
...that shape had none ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either : . . . what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown, had on." Before the case was decided, and during an interval of adjournment, Mr. Denman went to Cheltenham,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dnrt; 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;... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...MILTON. 1. 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... | |
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