 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form, As when, to warn proud cities, war appears •• .t Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle...in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knigths, and conch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form, As when, to warn proud cities, w ar appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush...legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heav'n the welkin burns. Others with vast Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...proud cities, war appears Waged in the trouhled sky, and armies rush To hattle in the clouds, hefore each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their...feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin hurns. Others, with vast Typhcean rage more fell, Rend up hoth rocks and hills, and ride the air In... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...fields; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in...legions close; with feats of arms From either end of heav'n the welkin burns. Others with vast Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...6elds. Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form, er hand ? With varying vanities, from every part,...heart; Where wigs with wigs, with word-knots swordk airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in...armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of... | |
 | John Washbourn - Gloucester (England) - 1825 - 696 pages
...above recited, occurring before he wrote his poem, might have suggested to him that noble simile in Paradise Lost — As when, to warn proud cities, war...of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns. PARADISE LOST, ii. n. 1. 533 et seq. Had Cowper been acquainted with the above particulars they would... | |
 | John Washbourn - Gloucestershire (England) - 1825 - 718 pages
...above recited, occurring before he wrote his poem, might have suggested to him that noble simile in Paradise Lost — As when, to warn proud cities, war...Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears 'I'il I thickest legions close : with feats of arms From either ena of Heaven the welkin burns. PARADISE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 464 pages
...the shook of battle. The following comparison in the second hook of Paradise Lost best explains it: ' As when to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in...arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.' 2 This double negative had the force of a stronger asseveration in the phraseology of that age. So... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...the shock of battle. The following comparison in the second book of Paradise Lost best explains it: ' As when to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in...arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.' 5 This double negative had the force of a stronger asseveration in the phraseology of that age. So... | |
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