 The other shape, If shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And...  A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles ... - Page 158de Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 306 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...terrible, and sublime to the last degree. Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful, part ii. sect. 3. 670. —black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either:) black it stood as night. Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, 671 And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan... | |
 | 1825 - 428 pages
...naked and pendulous ; and such a face, and such hideous yells, as it is impossible to de scribe. " Black it stood as night, — fierce as ten furies, — Terrible as hell !" ON THE MANSER OF PREPARING THE ELASTIC COMPOSITION ROLLERS OR CYLINDERS, WHICH ARE EMPLOYED TO DISTRIBUTE... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 742 pages
...threefold" and " impenetrable," and guarded by Death ¡ who, to oppose his progress, stood forth, " fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, and shook a dreadful dart." " On the other side, incensed with indignation, Satan stood, unterrifiecl." " Kach at the head levelled... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...substanee might be eall'd that shadow seem'd, For eaeh seem'd either ; blaek it stood as night, Fieree seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly erown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd Ms head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...shape, (If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb ; Or substance might be called that ° shadow seemed, For each seemed either,) 7 black it stood as night, 8 Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; 9... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 pages
...difficulty of describing Death, and yet we feel satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives : — ' What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.' We have no grinning jaws nor marrowless bones here. When blood was first shed on «arth, the same great... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1826 - 378 pages
...Distinguishable in membcr , joint , or limb , Or substance might be call'd that shadow secm'd , For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night , Fierce as ten Furies , terrible as hcll , And sliook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his liead , The likeness of a kingly crown had on.... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pages
...666 If shape it might be called that shape had none 667 Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For...seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 675 With horrid strides... | |
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