 Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield Such ruin intercept: ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd; as if on earth Winds under ground or waters, forcing way Side-long had push'da mountain from his...  The Literary Magazine, and American Register - Page 313edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Severn river - English poetry - 1859 - 408 pages
...ruin intercept: ten paces huge He back recoiled ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstaid; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters, forcing way, Sidelong had pushed a mountain from its seat, Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seized The rebel thrones, but greater rage, to see... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...ruin intercept : ton puces huge He back recoil'd; thé tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd : as if on earth, Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had push'da mountain from his seat, H • ir sunk with ail his pines. Amazement seized The rebel thrones,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...ruin intercept: ten paces huge He back recoil'd; ilia tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd: as if on earth, Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had pushVI a mountain from his seat, Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seized The rebel thrones,... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...ruin intercept: ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd ; as if on earth, Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had push'da mountain from his seat Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seiz'd The rebel thrones, but... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...Abdiel : — " Ten paces huge lie back recoil'd; the tenth on bended knee, His massy spear npstay'd ; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had pushed a mountain from it» seat, Half ¡uní with all its pine»." It would be easy to illustrate by comparison the vast... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...ofAbdiel: '• Ten paces huge Be back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee, His massy spear upstay'd ; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had pushed a mountain from itt teat, Half sunk with all its pinet." It would be easy to illustrate by comparison the vast superiority... | |
 | English literature - 1864 - 496 pages
...battle, says : " Ten paces huge He back rccoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd ; as if on earth Winds under ground or waters forcing way Sidelong had pushed a mountain from its seat Half sunk with all its pines". As in this we have an instance of associative power, we have... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 244 pages
...judgment here ? " Ten paces huge He back recoiled ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstaid, as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his scat Half-sunk with all his pines. " Together both ere the high lawns appeared Under lhe opening eyelids... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...intercept : ten paces huge . ] 93 He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd ; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had push'da mountain from his seat, Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seized The rebel thrones, but... | |
 | George Harris - Aesthetics - 1869 - 338 pages
...suggested : — " Ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee, His massy spear upstay'd, as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way Sidelong, had push'da mountain from his seat Half sunk with all his pines." The narration of the encounter between... | |
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