 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...  An essay On the picturesque - Page 190by Sir Uvedale Price - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed bis head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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, 671 And shook a dreadful dart. What seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...flow'd*. He has not represented his image terrible, but loathsome and nauseous. On Of Death he says, black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. • But Milton's judiciousness in selecting such circurflstances as tend to raise a... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...called, that shape had none Distinguishable in number, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood...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. But if Death has in the... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - Death - 1803 - 68 pages
...of Terrors, is a • just appropriation of our great bard's description of the same object : . • - 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. vii In the employment of... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb : Or substance might be calkd, that shadow seemed Ï For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, . • • • . ' ' ,• V - And shook, a. dreadful dart. What seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...c;ill'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be rall'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood...as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, 671 Ar.d shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his lie ad The likeness of a kingly crown had on. hr.inwas... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...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...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. In this description all... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Martyrs - 1810 - 392 pages
...that shape had noue Distingùlshable in member , joint , or limb , Or substance might be rail 'd thaï shadow seem'd , For each seem'd either; black it stood...Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadfuldart; what seem'd his head , The likunrss of a kingly crown had on. Par. Lost. II, 666. XIIIe.... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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...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... | |
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