 The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook...  The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 11061822Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 516 pages
...either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd 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,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pages
...either, — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. The undaunted fiend what this might be admired ; Admired, not fear'd : God and his Son except, Created... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1851 - 566 pages
...either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Paradise Lost, 11. 1)66-673. 58 III. HELL. — Fire is heaped at the entrance ; and this mode of representing... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." And, when Sin from her side takes the fatal key, sad instrument of all our woo, and Satan looks forth... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...black it stood as nigh*, | Fierce as ten furies, I terrible as Hell, | And shooA: a dreadful dart ; I what seem'd his head \ The likeness of a kingly crown had on. I * SCYLLA, a fabled monster, of whom mention is made in the Odyssey. She is said to have twelve feet... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...either ; hlack it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrihle as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on." (1) An inscription should he simple, short, and eminently suggestive. That given ahove is simple and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1856 - 518 pages
...either : black it stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Paradise Łost, Book II. The grandest efforts of poetry are where the imagination is called forth,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1856 - 414 pages
...either : black it stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, , And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Paradise Lost, Book II. The grandest efforts of poetry are where the imagination is called forth, not... | |
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