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" Waved round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile... "
Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts - Page 12
by John Milton - 1849 - 582 pages
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, 341 That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night,...of Nile : So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hov'ring on wing under the cope of Hell 345 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires ; Till, as...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, WavM round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud 340 Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er...Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell 345 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires; Till, as a signal giv'n, th' up-lifted spear Of their...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...voice they soon obey'd Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts,...wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounded fires; Till, as a signal given, the uplifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Phiraoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile...wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires, Till, as a signal given, the up-lifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...mean, from Paradise Lost, i. : " As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts,...the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darkeh'd all the land of Nile ; So numberless where those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharao hung Like night, and darkened all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad...under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Paradise Lost, BI Such comparisons have, by some writers, f been condemned for the...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 72

England - 1852 - 798 pages
...'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires." They were like leaves — now they are like locusts. " As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's...wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like iii-jlit, and darken'd all the land of Nile." What would yon more ? At a signal given by the uplifted...
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Elements of criticism [by H. Home].

Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharao hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile;...under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Paradise Lost, B. 1. Such comparisons have, by some writers, t been condemned for...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pbarao hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile...wing under the cope of hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Paradise Lost, BI Such comparisons have, by some writers,t been condemned for the...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pliaraoh hung Like night, and darkened my soul ! Is there no hope ? — Alas !— then bring...crone, whom praying priests attend, Still strives to surrounding fires, Till, as a signal given, the up-lifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct...
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