 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
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1865 - 470 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 monster, thus graphically described, advances with horrid strides to bar Satan's passage. Incensed... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - 484 pages
...one of the most wonderful embodiments' of supernatural terror which ever was conceived by poet,— "What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on," In these and many other passages the poet seems perpetually on the point of giving way to that tendency... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt - 1868 - 394 pages
...— " That tyrant never sate" In unconscious keeping with such an ideal of Death, Milton says — " What seem'd his head The LIKENESS of a kingly crown had on." And Burns — " I there wi' SOMETHING did foregather, That put me in an eerie swither." One of the... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 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 674 The monster, moving onward, came as fast With horrid... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...blacA it stood as night, ! Fierce as ten furies, ! terrible as Hell, | And shooA a dreadful dart ; | what seem'd his head | The likeness of a kingly crown had on. | • SCYLLA, a fabU'd monster, of whoti mention is made m ihl Odysw-y. She is said to have twelve... | |
 | George Harris - 1869 - 332 pages
...either ; black it stood as Night ; Fierce as tea Furies ; terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Notwithstanding the beauty excellence and merit, as imaginative efforts more especially, of some of... | |
 | George Harris - 1869 - 338 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." Notwithstanding the beauty excellence and merit, as imaginative efforts more especially, of some of... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...either; black it stood as night, 670 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 675 With horrid strides,... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 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... | |
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