| Dionysios Solōmos, Hans-Christian Günther - 2000 - 312 pages
...Paradise Lost I 6 1 1 ff.(... yetfaithful how the\ stood,/ Their glory withered: as when heaven 's fire/ Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines,/...stately growth though bare/ Stands on the blasted heath ...); V. Monti, Per la passione di Nostro Signore II 12Iff. (Cosl quando del ciel fiamma funesta/ Una... | |
| Eva Hänssgen - Classical literature - 2003 - 300 pages
...Hölle gleichen blitzgezeichneten Bäumen: [...] yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: äs when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or...stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath. [...] (PL 1,611-15) In Moby-Dick dienen Bäume auch als Vergleich für Ahabs Unzugänglichkeit und... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...stood, Their glory withered. As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines,0 With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
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