| Robert Shepherd (novelist.) - 1876 - 136 pages
...its place. The description which Milton gives of Satan — Squat like a toad close by the ear of Eve Assaying by his devilish art, to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - 280 pages
...hob-goblin, a robingood-fellow. Also the night-mare or riding hag.' Compare Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. 813 : 'Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams.' Elsewhere it simply denotes an apparition,... | |
| John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...direct In search of whom they sought ; him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams, Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint... | |
| John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...search of whom they sought: him there they found, Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve ; 800 Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms, and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might... | |
| Samuel Byron Brittan - 1882 - 570 pages
...where is thus described in the language of the poet : " Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint... | |
| Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1883 - 528 pages
...xxxi. 4. * Ps. xci. 3. * Pi. cxxiv. 7. 5 Job xxiv. 16. " See St. James iii. 5. 7 See Jer. xvii. 9. Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms, and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might... | |
| Robert Reid Howison - 1883 - 598 pages
...the form, first of a lion, then of a tiger, and at last " Squat like a toad, close at the car of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy." — " Paradise Lost," Book IV. And, when driven from the garden by Gabriel, Ithuricl and Zephon. as... | |
| 1883 - 810 pages
...He «ings in his " Paradise Lost : " — Him they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantoms and dreams. The truth upon this matter lias between... | |
| John Milton - 1892 - 654 pages
...In search of whom they sought. Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, 800 Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams; Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint... | |
| John Milton - 1892 - 414 pages
...In search of whom they sought. Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, 800 Assaying, by his devilish art, to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions., as he list, phantasms, and dreams ; Or if, inspiring venom, he might... | |
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