 Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage;...  Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres - Page 79by Hugh Blair - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Blair - 1854 - 244 pages
...dead, Th' infernal monarch reared his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abode*, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful e'en to gods. Such wars the immortals wage ; such horrors rend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...the dead, The infernal monarch rcar'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne,lestNeptune'sarm should t abodes ; The glorious fault of angels and of gods...to their images on earth it flows, And in the breas even to gods. Such war the immortals wage ; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 pages
...dead, The infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in...abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods." HOM. II. 1. xx. v. 61. It was believed by the ancients of the east that the northern region of the... | |
 | Ferdinand Whittingham - 1864 - 424 pages
...dead Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arms should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in...Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful to the Gods." The Ionian Islands have probably been always subjected to earthquakes. But wholly unrecorded... | |
 | Homer - 1865 - 302 pages
...Th' infernal monarch reai'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lajP His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light...Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful e'en to Gods. Such war th' immortals wage : such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the Gods... | |
 | Homerus - 1870 - 552 pages
...The infernal monarch reared his horrid head, Leaped from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay 85 His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorred by men, and dreadful e'en to gods. Such war the immortals wage ; such horrors rend The world's... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...dead,1 The infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in...Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful even to gods.3 THE GODS DESCENDING TO DATTLH. Such war the immortals wage ; such horrors rend The world's... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 pages
...dead, Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, _ Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's... | |
 | Catherine Ann White - 1877 - 466 pages
...dead, Th' infernal monarch rears his horrid head, Leaped from his throne, lest Neptune's arms should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorred by men and dreadful e'en to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's... | |
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