 To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3861852Full view - About this book
 | Janet Lungstrum, Elizabeth Sauer - Philosophy - 1997 - 376 pages
...conceals his defeat, Satan holds his audience mute in anticipation of his oration: "Thrice he assay'd and thrice in spite of scorn / Tears such as Angels...forth: at last / Words interwove with sighs found out thir way" (1.619-21). Satan uses rhetoric and gestures to smooth over any signs of conflict or self-contradiction,... | |
 | John Milton - 1998 - 1494 pages
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 | James Joyce - Artists - 1998 - 1060 pages
...'floating many a rood'; (2) Paradise Lost, 1. 6 1 9-20, of Satan, trying to speak to the fallen angels: 'and thrice in spite of scorn, | Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth'; (3) Dante's Inferno, xx1. 1 39: Italian: 'And of his arse he made a trumpet'. 177.10-11 Gaptoothed... | |
 | Dionysios Solōmos, Hans-Christian Günther - 2000 - 312 pages
...a tow 'r; hisform had yet not lost/ All her original brightness ...) und 619ff. (Thrice he assaged, and thrice in spite of scorn,/ Tears such as angels weep, burst forth: at last/ Words interwove with sighsfound out their way.); bereits Homer, Ilias XIII 20 (Dreimal erhob er den Schritt, und das viertemal... | |
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