 On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.  Tales about the sun, moon, and stars - Page 257by Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - 562 pages
...The poets knew how to use this superstition of the baneful influence of comets to advantage : — " Like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." MILTOX. " Comets, importing change of time and states,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...deform : on tlV other side Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterriff d, and like a comet hurn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from liis horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and w.ir. Each at vhe head Level'd his deadly aim: their fatal... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...deform. On th' other side, Incens'd with indignation, Satan stood Untenify'd, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...deform : on th' other side Incens'd with indignation Satan stood tlnterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Fach at the head Level'd his deadly aim : their fatal hands No second... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 68 pages
...: • On th' other side Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd ; and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge, In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid air Shakes pestilence and -war. But the finest instance of the prosopopoeia in the present Poem, unquestionably... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...with indignation, Satan stood T'nlerrify'd, and like a comet bnrn'd, That fires the length of OpiucVms huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence nud war. Each at (lip head J^vcl'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands Ko seconil slri>ke intend, and... | |
 | Henry Headley - 1810 - 246 pages
...indignation, Satan stood, Uii terrified; and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Opiuchus huge In th' Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and*rvar. Ibid. 710. A mass of woe, his teeth for torment gnash, While his steel sides sound with his... | |
 | Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 612 pages
...as poetical crtcd ; thus .Millón, ' and like a comet btirn'd, ' That fires the length of Ophiucus huge * In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair ' Shakes pestilence and war.' The raft, the ravage, the devastations of Mars, will give the idea requir'd ; but among these and many... | |
 | Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 620 pages
...well as poetical creed; thus Milton, ' . and like a comet burn'd, ' That fires the length of Ophiucus huge • In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair ' Shakes pestilence and wnr.' The rage, the ravage, the devastations of Mars, will ¿¡\e the idea requir'd ; but among these... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...ou tli1 other side, Incens'd with indignation, Satan stood \ Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head I-eveH'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second... | |
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