 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 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... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 pages
...been still more cruel than his enemies. My greatest grief is that I leave no thing that claims a tear. What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on. Long were to tell what I have done. Falcons, they say, to be true to their prey should be trained in... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...motion ?" "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." " Hail, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal co-eternal beam." "Lowly reverent... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 218 pages
...— 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 675 With horrid strides;... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 216 pages
...— 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 675 With horrid strides... | |
 | Harris Ray Greene - 1879 - 382 pages
...the size of a mountain (ie, as large as a mountain.) — Virgil. (3.) Comparison of Resemblance. " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." — Milton. EXBRCISE 71. Classify all Objective and all A djective modifiers. I. The cruelty of war... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 604 pages
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 | 1880 - 406 pages
...when he described "Death" at Hell-gate as, "That shape or substance called that shadow seemed. * * * * What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Mystery is that which gives superstition ita hold upon any individual. Those who can fathom its folly... | |
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