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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The ... - Page 135
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810
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Criticisms on Paradise Lost

Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...them the following great image : — 1 From their foundations, loosening to and fro, 20 They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...description, improved by the imagination of Claudian 25 without its puerilities. I need not point out the description of the fallen angels seeing the promontories...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 pages
...the lightning-glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Milton, James Montgomery - 1892 - 602 pages
...their foundations loosening to and fro, They pluck' d the seated hills, with all their load, Bocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands : amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Books

John Milton - 1894 - 360 pages
...the lightning-glimpse, they ran, they flew ; From their foundations loosening to and fro They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by their shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host,...
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Paradise Lost. Books I and II.

John Milton - Bible - 1897 - 146 pages
...lightning-glimpse, they ran, they flew : From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by their shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. (VI. 639-647.) Satan's artillery is overwhelmed;...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 318 pages
...pluck'd the seated Hills with all their load, RocKSt Waters, Woods, and by the shaggy tops Up'tifting, bore them in their Hands, We have the full Majesty...short Description, improved by the Imagination of Claudia n< without its Puerilities, I need not point out the Description of the fallen Angels seeing...
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The Spectator: no. 322-394; Mar. 10, 1712-June 2, 1712

George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 408 pages
...out of them the following great image : — From their foundations loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands L We have the full majesty of Homer in this short description, improved by the imagination of Claudian,...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 346 pages
...the chief seat of the Druids; shaggy: densely wooded; 'shaggy hill.' — PL, iv. 224. ' They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands.' —PL, vi. 645. ' grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades.' — Comus, 429. 55. Deva: the river...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 350 pages
...the chief seat of the Druids; shaggy: densely wooded; 'shaggy hill.' — PL, iv. 224. ' They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands.' — PL, vi. 645. ' grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades.' — Comus, 429. 55. Deva : the river...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 476 pages
...the lightning-glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations, loosening to and fror They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel Host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom...
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