 The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none 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 And shook...  The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Pagina 11061822Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pagina’s
...either; black it stood as Night, 6;o 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 monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagina’s
...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 was now at hand, and from his seat, The monster moving onward, came as fast 675 With horrid strides,... | |
 | 1811 - 702 pagina’s
...either; 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. But if Death has in the main been abused, and suffered so much by the barbarity of our poets and painters,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 68 pagina’s
...• - 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. vii In the employment of Sin, pointing and envenoming the stings of Death, there is a beautiful personification... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pagina’s
...either ,• black he stood as night s Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell / And shook a deadly dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. OF... | |
 | 1828 - 590 pagina’s
...either ; hlack it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrihle 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 monster, moving onward, came as fast With horrid strides... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 pagina’s
...either; 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. In this description all is dark, uncertain, con* fused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. There... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pagina’s
...either ; 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 monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 444 pagina’s
...either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a deadly dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. The union of deformity with beauty, is, from the contrast, more striking than any other ; but it is... | |
 | Basil Richard Barrett - 1812 - 188 pagina’s
...either ) black he stoqd as qigkt, " Fierpe as ten furies, terrible as hell, " A"d shook a deadly dart. What seem'd his head " The likeness of a kingly crown had on." This passage may be shewn to derive its sublimity from the criterion assigned, and not from that^ of... | |
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