 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 shook...  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 105by Edmund Burke - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 pages
...seem'd either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Paries, terrible as Hell, And shouk a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." t " Memoir," ToL ii. p. 206. 172 THE BILL ABANDONED-JOY OF THE COUNTRY. [1820. and the arguments of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pages
...seem'd either ; black it stood as ni;: hi , 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 from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...seem'd either : 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. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 614 pages
...mght; Fieree as ten furies; ternble as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The liheneis of a kingly crown had on} In this description all...sublime to the last degree. SECT. IV. Of the Difference Between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with Regard to the PASSIONS. It is one thing to make an idea clear,... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...seem'd either; 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. (II, 666-673) Again the description is of physical qualities. Moral evaluations are implied only through... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...representative of strong forces and unswerving energies, is conveyed in Burke's discussion of Milton's Death; "all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree," he exclaims of Milton's personification, the shape that shape had none.14 As Burke points out, Milton... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...finally lost' (pp. 63, 70). This is not quite the case with Milton's Death, however, of which Burke says, 'In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree' (p. 59). He is making a distinction he is unwilling to explore between the representation of terrible... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Baldine Saint Girons - 1998 - 260 pages
...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 his head The likeness ofa kingly crown had on. Burke cite de mémoire, remplaçant notamment... | |
 | Sara Suleri Goodyear - 1992 - 241 pages
...between aggrandizement and obscurity. The anxious insistence with which the Enquiry privileges darkness ("all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree"; CW, vol. 1, p. 133) is on this score proleptic, for, years before his involvement in the colonization... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 pages
...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 his head The likeliness of a kingly crown had on. (59) "In this description all is dark, uncertain,... | |
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