 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 Wilson Croker - 1884 - 460 pages
...the Queen. It was he who suggested to Brougham at her trial the effective quotation from Milton — " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on."] does not think he could be of use in that office. He has no taste or turn for debate unless when obliged... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 304 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... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1884 - 628 pages
...the Queen. It was he who suggested to Brougham at her trial the effective quotation from Milton — " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on."] J persuaded to join. I am sure the Speaker will give him good advice." Lord Melville thinks, and I... | |
 | George Edmundson - 1885 - 242 pages
...Death, who bars the way of Satan to this same gate of hell — " The other shape Shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." — PL, ii. 672-673. In the first book of Paradise Lost, such expressions as — " Bound he throws... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 334 pages
...either; black it stood as night, 6 7° 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;... | |
 | 1928 - 922 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 again: and Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled and blessed... | |
 | 1909 - 502 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... | |
 | 1826 - 642 pages
...natural and consistent. But he could not be satisfied with nature and with simple emotion. He opens an iron door, and sends forth a skeleton — a Death,...What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown bad on.' We have no grinning jaws nor marrowless bones here. When blood was first shed on earth, the... | |
 | 1886 - 982 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. In short, he shatters the ideal of his compatriots in the most cruel and reckless fashion, and does... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 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... | |
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