 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed; Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...were presumed to be not undesigned. — Hattam. 2. Mary was not by any means illiterate — Idem. 3. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. Milton. 4. Nor has he gone without his reward. — Carlyle. SENTENCES TO BE CORRECTED.— 253 and 254. 1. The... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive1 the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to2 their general's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son,... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pages
...The pilot was not unacquainted with the coast ;" — " Nor did he pass unmoved the gentle scene." " Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pain not feel." — Milton. The intervention of only, or some other word of kindred meaning, preserves... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 pages
...Grsecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem ; as towards the beginning of it ; " Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. Yet to their gen'ral's voice they soon ohey'd . Who shall tempt with wand'ring feet The dark nnbottom'd... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 pages
...duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not5 perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; 337 Yet to their gen'ral's voice they soon obey'd6 1 "If" depends on "lost," in the preceding line.... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their Generals Voyce they foon obeyd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypt... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their Generals Voyce they foon obeyd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypts... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...wont to wateh On duty, sieeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey 'd Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son,... | |
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They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce... 
