 | David Nevins Lord - Bible as literature - 1854 - 316 pages
...destruction seek — Deliver'ance for us all. — This en'terprize — None' shall partake with me. " As' when heav'en's fire — Hath sca'thed the forest...pines — With sing'ed top, — their stately growth, though bare', — Stands' on the blast'ed heath." Those opening with a trochee, and closing on the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Plants - 1854 - 718 pages
...— Speaking of the (alien angels, he says, — " Faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd ; M when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or...mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stand! on the blasted heath." Sir Walter Scott, also, mentions the Scotch pine in the... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1854 - 682 pages
...(alien angels, he says, — " Faithful how they itood, Their glory withered ; ля when Heaven'» flre Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare. Stands on the blasted heath." Sir Walter Scott, also, mentions the Scotch pine in the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. He was baffled, not confounded. He stood like a tower ; or • As when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines." He is still surrounded with hosts of rebel angels, armed warriors, who own him as their sovereign leader,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - English language - 1855 - 324 pages
...destruction seek — Deliver'ance for us all. — This en'terprize — None' shall partake with me. " As' when heav'en's fire — Hath sca'thed the forest...pines — With sing'ed top, — their stately growth, though bare', — Stands' on the blast'ed heath." Those opening with a trochee, and closing on the... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 864 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For hia revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd ; as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. (a) Paraphrase this passage. (V) Quote the lines in which... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...place of logy, part i. chap. iii. For a further annihilation, account of this feeling, consult, also, Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed 2 the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | Gazetteers - 1856 - 986 pages
...the melted rock,— an image recalling those beautiful lines: ' As when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines. With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.' " The volcanic nature of JR. is exactly similar to that... | |
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Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately... 
