 | 1806 - 550 pages
...night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, . • • • . ' ' ,• V - And shook, a. dreadful dart. What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Th 'tfur 'apprehension, Shakespear, in this case, had a more prophetic spirit of anticipation, than... | |
 | 1822 - 874 pages
...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, Wilh wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal." It was, he added, " A shapeless monster,... | |
 | 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...We have no grinning jaws nor marrowless bones here. When blood was first shed on «arth, the same great poet makes death rejoice as a bird of prey smelling... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...7 black it stood as night, 8 Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; 9 what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. 10 The grisly monster moving onward, came With horrid strides, Hell trembled as lie strode. MILTON.... | |
 | 1827 - 712 pages
...either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed 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." The... | |
 | 1827 - 294 pages
...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. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 675 With horrid strides... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...seem'd 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. Satan was now at hand—and from his seat The monster moving,—onward came as fast— With horrid... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...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, Satan was now at hand; and from his seat The monster moving, onward came as fast With horrid strides;... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 332 pages
...this difficult allegory. We are satisfied with the indistinct image which he gives us : " Wliatpeemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." We...when blood was first shed on earth, and, like a bird iof prey, smell the carnage ; still there is no distinct image : " So seemed the grim Feature, and... | |
 | Thomas Phillips - 1833 - 522 pages
...in our minds sentiments congenial with his own. Black it stood as Night, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat, The monster moving onwards, came as fast With horrid strides... | |
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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 shook... 
