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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... "
The History of Scotland: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of ... - Page 462
by Malcolm Laing - 1804
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Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ...

John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...his revolt ! yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd ! as when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though hare, 615 Stands on the hlasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their douhled ranks...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wilher'd: as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd ence ; But in their glimmering though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prcpar'd To «peak ; whereat their doubled ranks they...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a memoir by J. Montgomery, Volume 1

John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For his 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. He now prepared To speak : whereat their double ranks they...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd: as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd . . . &0/ - - c/i % %x - /~/ / /h .1. % %Y / N-#& . . .C*~,g/h/i/ / though bore, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they...
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English poetry, for use in the schools of the Collegiate institution ...

English poetry - 1844 - 92 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...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 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." the eye can reach ; though he keeps aloof from them in his own mind, and holds supreme counsel only...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. Ho 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,...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 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,...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...his fault amerced3 Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful4 how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest-oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare* Stands on the blasted...
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The History of Vermont: With Descriptions, Physical and Topographical

Hosea Beckley - Vermont - 1846 - 414 pages
...change, may bring home the question, who makeih thee to differ 1 " 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 number of patients in this asylum is about two hundred...
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