 Back to the gates of heaven : the sulphurous hail, Shot after us in storm, o'erblown, hath laid The fiery surge, that from the precipice Of heaven received us falling ; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 2311811Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...falling ; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, 175 Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our Foe. Seest thou yon... | |
 | 1831 - 550 pages
...received us falling; and the thunder Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep." It is in blank verse alone, that poetry is capable of vindicating its pretensions to something higher... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...receiv'd us falling; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the' occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon... | |
 | 1832 - 372 pages
...received us falling : and the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rnge Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep ! " Whoever wishes to know how a little change in language will strip this vast conception of all its... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...falling ; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightuing and impetuous rage, 175 Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...us falling ; and the thunder , Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage , Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seesl thou yon... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...us falling ; and the thunder , Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage , Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...us falling ; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...us falling ; and the thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...falling ; and the thunder, 175 " Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, " Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now " To bellow through the vast and boundless deep : " Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn, " Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. 180 " Seest... | |
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