 | William Bell - Fairies in literature - 1860 - 360 pages
...appearance of the wild huntsman was believed to foretell as in Milton's "Par. Lost," book II, v. 533: As when to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in...and couch their spears Till thickest legions close. In "Wales I have seen traditions of the wild hunt, noted under the alliterative title of The Devil... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears 400 Wnged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms 1 An allusion to the civil war be- nected with it; as here the metal for tween Charles I. and the parliament.... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. . As when, to warn proud cities, w r ar appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...spears, Till thickest legions close; with feats of amis From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhcean rage, more fell, Rend up... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 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...the troubled sky , and armies rush To battle in the olouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and conch their spear« Till thickest legions... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhcean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhcean rage, more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...war appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battel in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears...of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others with vast Typhoean rage more fell Bend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air 540 In whirlwind... | |
 | Old Traveller - Adventure - 1854 - 312 pages
...he penned the allusion to the same apparition : " As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds ; before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close, with feats of arms From either side... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind... | |
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Olympian games or Pythian 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 Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van... 
