 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...their blood with morning's light*5. But we rolled away, like wreaths And like a comet burned, Thatjires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. As an instance of variations, death, or pestilence, in the first edition, attends its gre en course;... | |
 | Philip Massinger - English drama - 1805 - 540 pages
...indignation, Satan stood " Unterrified,- and like a comet bitrn'd, " That fires the length of Ophiucus huge " In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair " Shakes pestilence and war." That sit there as my judges, to determine* The life and death of Malefbrt, where are now Those shouts,... | |
 | 1828 - 590 pages
...indignation, Satan stood Unterrify'd ; and like a comet hurn'd, That fires the length of Ophinchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pages
...passage in Paradise Lost : " So Satan stood, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." The different nature of the objects considered, your passage has no inferiority ; the epithet wavering... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 pages
...the magnificent and awful picture which follows : " On the other side, " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood " Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,...huge " In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair " Shaken pestilence and war." That sit there as my judges, to determine1 The life, and death of Malefort,... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...with indignation, Satan stood TJnterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiucns huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Milton has here exceeded his originals in sublimity ; and his comparison is applied with much greater... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...ten-fold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incau'd with indignation, Satan stood L'nterrified, to Each at the head LereU'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 340 pages
...deform : on th' other side, Incens'd with indignation, Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet bnrn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head • « LevelM his deadly aim ; their fatal hands Jfo... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,...and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...More dreadful and deform. On the' other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood TJnterrified; and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of...and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Levell'd his deadly aim : their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
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That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. 
