 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 464 pages
...ruin intercept. Ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His mafly fpear upftaid ; as if on earth Winds under ground or waters forcing way Sidelong had pufh'da mountain from his feat Half funk with all pines. Miltott > b.6i * See chap.. 4. A companion... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...ruin intercept. Ten paces kuge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His mafly fpear upftaid ; as if on earth Winds under ground or waters forcing way, Sidelong had pufli'da mountain from his feat Half funk with all his pines. Milton, b. 6. A companion by contraft... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...ruin intercept : ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His mafTie fpear upftaid ; as if on earth Winds under ground or waters forcing way Sidelong, had pu(h'ta mountain from his feat Half funk with all his pines. Amazement feiz'd The rebel thrones, but... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...tuin intercept. Ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee .His mafly fpear upftaid ; as if on earth Winds under ground or waters forcing way, Sidelong had pufh'da mountain from his feat Half funk with all his pines. Milton, b. 6. A comparifon by contraft... | |
 | English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...ruin intercept: ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way Sidelong had push'da mountain from his seat Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seiz'd The rebel thrones, but... | |
 | William Pryce - Assaying - 1778 - 414 pages
...in 1745 ; and a more recent one, in the late accounts we have had, of Solway Mofs in North-Britain : As if on earth, Winds under ground, or Waters, forcing way, Side-long had pufh'da mountain from his feat, Half funk with all his pines. MILTON. As for thofe earthquakes, which... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...ruin intercept : ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd ; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way Sidelong had push'da mountain from his seat Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seiz'd The rebel Thrones, but... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...ruin intercepti ten paces huge He hack reco;l'di the tenth on hended knee His massy spear upstay'd ; as if on earth Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong had push'da mountain from his seat, Half sunk with all his pinerf. Amazement seii'd The ruhel thrones,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...from them, expanded into much superior grandeur. When Satan recoils from the stroke of Abdiel, it is -As if on earth Winds under ground, or waters, forcing way. Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat Half sunk with all his pines. PAR. L. vi. 195. He is more of a copyist... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 492 pages
...of Weftmorland, whom Paridel, in the hiftorical allufion, reprefents. He is compared to a wind fhut up in the caverns of the earth, and burfting forth...from his feat " Half funk with all his pines." UPTON. blaft They rudely drove to ground both man and horfe, That each awhile lay like a fericelefle corfe.... | |
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On the proud crest of Satan, that no sight, Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield, Such ruin intercept : Ten paces huge He back... 
