 | 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... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1837 - 334 pages
...dealt with this difficult allegory. We are satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives us : " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." We have no grinning jaws, nor marrowless bones here. The same great poet makes Death rejoice when blood... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...shadow seemed, For each seemed 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
...seemed 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1838 - 1116 pages
...difficulty of describing Death, and yet we feel satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives : — " "What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." We have no grinning jaws nor marrowless bones here. When blood was first shed on earth, the same great... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...For eacb seemed either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And ihook u dreadful dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown bud on. Satan was now at hand, and from huseat The momter moving onward, came as fast Wiih horrid strides... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 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.' ' The other shape,— In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to... | |
 | 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
...shadow seemed, For each seemed 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... | |
 | 1844 - 688 pages
...difficulty of describing Death, and yet we feel satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives : — " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." We have no grinning jaws nor marrowless bones here. When blood was first shed on earth, the same great... | |
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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 he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And... 
