 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
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...either,—black it stood as Night, 670 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;... | |
 | E. W., Edward Wynne - 1875 - 424 pages
...Milton, " 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." serpent is over it all." Death reigns supreme. This world affords much enjoyment, " but the trail of... | |
 | 1875 - 448 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... | |
 | James M'Cann (D.D.) - 1875 - 292 pages
...either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten fiends, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." The dart is one that stings with more than poisoned venom, and gives something of its power to every... | |
 | E. W., Edward Wynne - 1875 - 418 pages
...Milton, " 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." This world affords much enjoyment, " but the trail of the serpent is over it all." Death reigns supreme.... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1876 - 192 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." This creature waits for Satan to open the gates of hell, and then goes forth to devastate and ravage... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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 Peile - 1877 - 176 pages
...imagination, somewhat in the same way as vagueness of description does (it has been noted) in Milton :— " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Just so it has been well pointed out, when Euripides wrote (Hippolytus, 1339)— " Tous gar eusebeis... | |
 | 1878 - 890 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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 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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