 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...instances of that proud and daring mind which could not brook submission, even to Omnipotence! Batan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came ae fast With horrid strides, hell trembled as he strode, Th' undaunted fiend what this might be admir'd,... | |
 | 1886 - 982 pages
...compares ' le peuple-roi ' and its rule with Milton's hell-monsters : — Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In short, he shatters the ideal of his compatriots... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each sccm'd cither; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan...strides; Hell trembled as he strode. Th' undaunted Fiend what this might be admired Admired, not feared; God and his Son except, Created thing naught... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 pages
...Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 pages
...each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook like a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (PL 2.648-60, 666-73, PP- 48-49) Sin and Death display the phantasmatic energy that accrues to them... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - 1999 - 416 pages
...republican freedom was, they believed, secure in a rising American empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. —John Milton, Paradise... | |
 | David Bromwich - 2001 - 275 pages
...limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Burke relates this description to his chosen... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 870 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...from his seat The Monster moving onward came as fast, 875 With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode. Th' undaunted Fiend what this might be admir'd,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 2003 - 364 pages
...666-673. Burke might have continued the quotation which depicts the materialization of Satan: "Saia« was now at hand, and from his seat / The Monster moving...With horrid strides, Hell trembled as he strode." 324 APPENDIX C I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. And this branch rises... | |
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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... 
