 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1852 - 548 pages
..." the form of a hand" (viii. 3) ; " in form like a throne " (x. 1). It is copied by Milton : — " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on " — Paradise Lost, Book 2, 1. 672. seemed to hoar the Divine command laid upon him, to act the part... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 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^ 4. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward, came as fast With horrid strides... | |
 | Stephen W. Clark - 1855 - 258 pages
...THROUGH ways unknown." OBS. 6. — But, by the poets, it is often placed after its object, EXAMPLE. " What seemed his head, ' The likeness of a kingly crown had ON." — Milton. OBS. 7 — And sometimes in colloquial style. EXAMPLE — "You will have no mother or sisler... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, Charles Ignatius White - 1856 - 780 pages
...be called that shape had none, — Black it stood u Kight, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as bell, And shook a dreadful dart What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Never was phantom represented in a manner more vague and more terrific. The origin of Death, related... | |
 | John Bowring - 1857 - 554 pages
...conveyed to and appreciated by the reader. So— " " No light, but rather darkness visible." Again — " What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." " He fell — and to this hour Had still been falling." The Buddhists, whose contemplations lead their... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pages
...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. Many of Shakespeare's poetical pictures and ideal conceptions belong exclusively to the domain of Poetry.... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...seemed, For eaeh seemed either — blaek it stood as Night, 670 Fieree as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly erown had on. \ Satan was now at hand, and from his seat 659. abhorred, ie to be abhorred : see final... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...which, had he not done it, we might have thought impossible — he has embodied Milton's words : " What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on." " In the Satan of Sir Thomas Lawrence, (the worst portrait he ever painted,) all is so material as... | |
 | 1862 - 830 pages
...shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Pierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." — Par. Lost. B. II. Following the inspired statement, that " death came into the world by sin," this... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 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. " There are in this fearful image only three points on which the mind can fasten, — the colour, black... | |
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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... 
