 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
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 pages
...; 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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 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... | |
 | 1837 - 424 pages
...encountered at the gate of hell, though an airy nothing, it has some lineaments of form and feature. " What SEEMED his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Some things are discarded, which were getting too monstrous in the light of this age, and some truths... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 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." Analysis. These allegorical figures are strongly marked, and the resemblance of their characters to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...either: black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell j 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." The... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1840 - 354 pages
...of flesh and blood. Can anything be more absurd than this strange mixture of shadow and substance 1 See with what discretion Milton has escaped from the...indistinct image which he gives : — "What seemed his heao, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." We have no grinning jaws or marrowless bones here. When... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 pages
...failed. For instance, in aiming to imitate that inimitable passage, where, of death, it is said, " What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on," he says, " Sudden a seraph, that before them flew, Pausing upon his wide-unfolded plumes, Put to his... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pages
...either ; black it flood 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. Stttan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving, onward came as fust With horrid strides... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1843 - 524 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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1844 - 900 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... | |
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