 They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 41810Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...hottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or he for ever fall'n.' 330 They heard, and were ahash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found hy whom they dread, Rouse and hestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen !" They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men wont to watch On...not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Waved round the coast,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...of this gulf? — Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen ! " They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch, On...Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which thy were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their General's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable.... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...they insensible ? No. The Poet delivers yon from that supposition, if you have entertained it — " Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel." They did perceive the evil plight in which they were — they did feel theyfercs panu. They lay in... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
..."Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." The effect is immediate: They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On...bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. (PL 1.331-36) That lovely... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be forever fallen. 330 They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread,0 Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to thir General's Voice they soon obey'd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of Amram's Son in Egypfs evil day Wav'd round the Coast, up call'da pitchy cloud 340 Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern... | |
 | Simin Karimi, Vida Samiian, Wendy K. Wilkins - 2007 - 436 pages
...before the era of prescriptive grammars, but Lowth, Murray, and Webster ( 1980) all reject them. (7) a. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fiercest pains not feel (Milton, Paradise Lost, i:335) b. I cannot by no means allow him what his argument... | |
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