| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...affairs. So thick the aery crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's...narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some... | |
| John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...lines in Paradise Lost, where the fallen spirits in Pandemonium contract their size to gain room, and Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian Mount, or faery elves, \Vhose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees,... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Swartn'd and were straitenM; till the signal given, Behuld a wonderf they hut now who seein'd In higness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numherless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, • Whose midnight revels... | |
| 1811 - 702 pages
...blind bard may be credited, his infernal spirits adopted. " Behold a wonder! they but now who scem'ii In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Thronged numberless." . This poem is divided into two pans. The first commences with a most beautiful... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...So thick the airy crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Mow less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond... | |
| William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...given,— ' Behold a wonder! They who now but seem'd • In bigness to surpass earth's giant-sons, ' Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room •...Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race, • Beyond ths Indian Mount, or fairy Klves — • Thus incorporeal spirits, tho" reduced • To smallest forms,... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...affairs. So thick the a:ry crowd 77; Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they But now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like ihat pygmean race 7 Si] Beyond the Indian mount, or faery elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 pages
...extraordinary race of men, in proportion as population increases, are gradually reduced in size, " and less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room, " throng...like that pygmean race " beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves ;" or that they have some new world assigned them as a breeding-place, from which attempting... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1807 - 394 pages
...extraordinary race of men, in proportion as population increases, are gradually reduced in size, " and less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room, " throng...like that pygmean race " beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves ;" or that they have some new world assigned them as a breeding-place, from which attempting... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 pages
...extraordinary race of men, in proportion as population increases, are gradually reduced in size, " and less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room, " throng...like that pygmean race " beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves ;" or that they have some new world assigned them as a breeding-place, from which attempting... | |
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