 | 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,...growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak : whereat their double ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...his revolt, yet faithful how they stood. Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd eation, agreeable to the general order of things,...conformable to ends and relations to him unknown. IIL He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | 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/ / / bore, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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...growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath." The number of patients in this asylum is about two hundred ; and the recoveries from insanity, are... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...winter In storm perpetual, could not more the gods To look that way thou wert. Winier't Talt, 1IL S. - As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. PL, i. 615. - for God had thrown That mountain as his garden mould, high raised ' Upon the rapid current... | |
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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... 
