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" Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice... "
The shade of Byron: a mock heroic poem - Page 273
1871
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Callus old, Where armies whole have funk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Ver. 589. *re hail,'] Horace, Od. I. ii. 1. " Jam fatis tcrris nivis atquc dirx " Grandinis &c." NEWTON....
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire, Thither by harpy-footed furies hail'd, At certain revolutions, all the damn'd Are brought ; and feel...
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The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary ..., Volume 2

Anna Seward - 1810 - 410 pages
...— Milton, in his Paradise Lost, uses that fine old word,-synonimous to the common word frozen. " The parching Air " Burns frore, and Cold performs the effect of Fire," Also Spencer, " O ! my heart's blood is well nigh/rere, I feel." VOL. II. P Wide o'er her plains thy...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 24

New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damned Are brought ; and feel...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1

John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damn' d Are brought ; and feel...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the' effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damn'd Are brought ; and feel...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 27-28

British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...not this favourite beauty ; he declares that he could shiver in a hot-house when he reads that — the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire ; FAB. L. ii. 595. and that, when Milton bewails his blindness, the verse, So thick a drop serene hath...
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Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic Poem

Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - 1825 - 280 pages
...Dryden had borrowed this fine idea of the burning of cold from Milton — Parad. Lost. Book 2. 594. " The parching air " Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." But on turning to a Milton Variorum, I see it is from Virgil himself: Georg. 1. v 93, where he speaks...
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Bacchus in Tuscany: A Dithyrambic Poem

Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - 1825 - 262 pages
...Dryden had borrowed this fine idea of the burning of cold from Milton—Parad. Lost. Book 2. 594. • " The parching air " Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." But on turning to a Milton Variorum, I see it is from Virgil himself: Georg. 1. v 93, where he speaks...
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An essay upon the influence of the translation of the Bible upon English ...

William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 pages
...— " Clouds and darkness were round about him :" and many other passages in the Psalms. [/. 594.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. " When the cold north wind bloweth it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth...
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