The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 105by Edmund Burke - 1806Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1856 - 414 pages
...seem'd either : black it stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, , And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Paradise Lost, Book II. The grandest efforts of poetry are where the imagination is called forth, not... | |
| Robert Pollok - 1856 - 412 pages
...seem'd either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.— Par. Lost, II. 666-78. jjiilton gives no description of the undying worm, which by our Saviour ia employed... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 120 pages
...seem'd either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...seem'd either : black it stood as .Vigiil, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, Ind shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. S, it. in was now at hand, and from his seat The monster mooing onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1859 - 362 pages
...seem'd either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...either : black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart j what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." (1) An inscription should be simple, short, and eminently suggestive. That given above Is simple and... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...that shadow seem'd ; For each seem'd either; hlack he stood as night ; Pierce as ten furies ; terrihle ver any people has been known to rise against the...sanguinary tyrant. Their resistance was made to conces cont'•l d. terrihle, and suhlime to the last degree. SECTION IV. •JF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast, With horrd strides;... | |
| John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...seenTd either) black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. The grisly monster moving onward, came With horrid strides, Hell trembled as he strode. MILTON. HUMAN... | |
| Alexander Winton Buchan - 1861 - 130 pages
...seem'd either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
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