 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 384 pages
...these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant: Descent and fall To us is adverse; who hut felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, Insulting, and pursued us through Hie deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...still) That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what compulsion, and laborious (light 80 We sunk thus... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on .our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight so We sunk thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 526 pages
...levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. -Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear \ Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - Northern Ireland in literature - 1825 - 586 pages
...exultation at that success which, it must be acknowledged, they had arduously obtained. CHAPTER XVII. - Who but felt, of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compunction and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ; descent and fall To us is advertc. t this availeth nought ? Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat: Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce Foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight 80 We sunk thus... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, 25 Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...still. That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall t. To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep., With what compulsion and laborious flight, We sunk thus... | |
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Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low... 
