 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...fault amerced Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung 610 For his revolt — yet faithful how O 1 g2 } d @> L ݸ : $ Y = Ʊ 2 6P J䳸 c hκ9 % ٹ ... 澹S T C 7+ $ !gKb w6 K_-= N> / Y g o \=w though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 616 To speak; whereat their doubled ranks... | |
 | Werner Zirus - English philology - 1928 - 180 pages
...blitzgetroffenen Bäumen verglichen; Par.LI, 6 12 ff.: 'Their glory wither'd: as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines ; With singed top...stately growth tho' bare Stands on the blasted heath.' Wir werden dem Gleichnis in 'Queen Mab' wiederbegegnen. Freieren Ton zeigt auch ein Vers bei der Charakterisierung... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. He was baffled, not confounded. He stood like it tower; or ' As when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.' He was still surrounded with hosts of rebel angels, armed warrion, who own him as their sovereign leader,... | |
 | Werner Zirus - English philology - 1928 - 182 pages
...'Their glory wither'd: as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines ; Witli singed top their stately growth tho' bare Stands on the blasted heath.' Wir werden dem Gleichnis in 'Queen Mab' wiederbegegnen. Freieren Ton zeigt auch ein Vers bei der Charakterisierung... | |
 | College Entrance Examination Board - 1920 - 314 pages
...his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendors flung For his revolt — yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered; as when Heaven's...Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, With singèd top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. 1 forerunner " deprived... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's firs Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, thoojh bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 304 pages
...valley of sin or death— by the fitness of its lonely desolation. '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 causeway to hell-gate, On either side, disparted... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...his fault amerced Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung 610 For his revolt - yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered; as, when Heaven's...Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, With signed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath . He now prepared To speak;... | |
 | Fiona J. Stafford, Howard Gaskill - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 284 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. (Paradise Lost, 1,607-15) Without the passage from Paradise... | |
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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... 
