 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...some evil spirit attende) overing and blazing with delusive light. Misleads th' amaz'd nighl-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost from succour far. The secret intoxication of pleasure, with ,all those transient... | |
 | 1838 - 586 pages
...oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool , There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far : So glister'd the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd courts invite, Th' unblemish'd statesman seems to strike my sight If in the stage swallow'd up and lost, from succor far : So glister'd the dire snake, and into fraud lied Kve, our... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...evil spirit attends,) Hov'ring and blazing with delusive light, Misleads th' amaz'd night-wand'rer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far : So glister'd the dire snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads th' amaz'd night-wand'rer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool. There awallow'd up and lost, from succour far," MILTON'S Par. Lost, b. ix, 1. 634. 1 How Will a' Wisp misleads... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads...bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far ; So glister'd the dire snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd reams with swift-descending rain ; And waters tumbling down the mountain's side, Be swallow'd up and lost, from succor far : So glister'd the dire nui,r. and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...they say , some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light , Misleads th' amaz'd night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires , and oft through pond or pool ; There swallow'd up and lost , from succour far : So glister'd the dire snake , and into fraud Led Eve , our... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1843 - 592 pages
...noble description of the ignis fatuus ; ' Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool ; There swallow'd np and lost, from succour far." " — SEWARD. Shall hurt my body, or by vain illusion Draw... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 pages
...attends. Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Leading the amaz'd night-wauderer from his way Through bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallowed up and lost, from succour far." Scarce inferior to even the description of Milton is that of Collins:— " Ah, homely swains!... | |
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Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive... 
