 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 he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And...  Lectures on the History and Principles of Painting - Pagina 196door Thomas Phillips - 1833 - 477 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1893 - 736 pagina’s
...shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, *^ » » ' » Shook a dreadful dart, what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.' Death guarding the gate of Hell, Paradise Lost (JOHN MILTON, Book II., 1608-1674). 4. ' But tbou, my... | |
 | John Nichol - 1893 - 264 pagina’s
...substance might be called, that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night . . . . . . What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." * 1 8. Refer to authors whose writings are frequently obscure from over-brevity, and give examples... | |
 | John Reynolds Francis - 1894 - 412 pagina’s
...popular conception of death: — " Black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies; terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Yet fact, and philosophy founded on fact, tell us that death is not a personage; scarce even an event;... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1895 - 616 pagina’s
...seemed, For each seemed either, — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies. terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." That is Milton's picture of death. Contrast with that for a moment what we are accustomed to call disparagingly... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 654 pagina’s
...seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fieree as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly erown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1897 - 1002 pagina’s
...that suzerainty ? As it now existed it could only be compared to Milton's description of death — " What seemed his head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on." [Cheers.] That suzerainty would never be a reality till we asserted our power and preponderance in... | |
 | Frederic Perry Noble - 1899 - 538 pagina’s
...that shape has none, or substance may be called that shadow seems", recalls Milton's picture of death: "What seemed his head the likeness of a kingly crown had on". The supremacy of Sudanese Islam over Negro society is less a reality than a semblance. If material... | |
 | William Charles Edmund Newbolt - 1899 - 362 pagina’s
...different is this bony Grotesque from the vague and awful magnificence of Milton's imagination : — " What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on ! " Flaxman calls Roubiliac an enthusiast, " whose thoughts are conceits and his compositions epigrams... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1900 - 556 pagina’s
...shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell. And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Paradise Lost, it. .• Milton, Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1900 - 358 pagina’s
...only some of its effects ". - So Milton, enfolding this idea of death, Paradise Lost, ii., 672-3 : — What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. •'' Cf. Plato, Phtedo, x. :—i.pa ?x« aATjfleiiv TIVO ctyu re KO! OKOT) TOIJ uvOpunrms. % rd yf... | |
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