| Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
...branches, and the " meteor passing behind." " This," says Mr Laing, " is Milton's -" Satan alarmed, " Collecting all his might, dilated stood, " Like Teneriffe,...stature reached the sky, and on his crest " Sat horror plumed." — In order to refute the charge of plagiarism, in these instances, nothing further seems... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Prove chaff". On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved: His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed; nor wanted in his, grasp What seemed both spear and shield: now dreadful deeds Might have ensued,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Tenerirfor Atlas, unremoved: His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield: now dreadful deeds Might have ensued,... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, 985 Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd hoth spear and shield. Now dreadful deeds 990 Might have... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horrour plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd both spear and shield. Now dreadful deeds Might... | |
| Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...archangel and threatened vengeance ', but the phalanx of spirits hemmed him round with pointed spears. Satan alarm'd, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe or Atlas unremov'd; His stature reach'd the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plum'd ; nor wanted in his grasp... | |
| James Stanley Grimes - Phrenology - 1839 - 346 pages
...great admiral, were but a wand He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl. * * * * Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe...stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed. 5. WEIGHT. "And earth, self-balanced, on her centre hung." — Miltun, The perception of weight,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...star-pav'd." 56 Boos V. PARADISE LOST. Lrst on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff On (he their God May prove their foe, and with repenting hand Abolish his own works. This would sur uuremov'd : His stature reach'd the sky, and on his crest i*t Horror plum'd ; nor wanted in his grasp... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...careful ploughman doubting stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, Collecting all his might,...stood, Like Teneriffe, or Atlas, unremoved: His stature reach'd the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd both spear... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...stand* Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeless sheaves Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood Like TenerifFe...stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield : Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake... | |
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