| John Milton - 1903 - 446 pages
...Such solitude before choicest society. Full forty days he passed—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
| John Milton - 1904 - 312 pages
...Such solitude before choicest society. Full forty days he passed—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
| John Milton - 1905 - 398 pages
...Unshaken ! PARADISE REGAINED, BOOK IV. FULL forty days he pass'd—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harbour'd in one cave, is not reveal'd; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
| John Milton - 1905 - 392 pages
...Unshaken ! PARADISE REGAINED, BOOK IV. FULL forty days he pass'd—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harbour'd in one cave, is not reveal'd; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
| John Milton - 1906 - 582 pages
...Such Solitude before choicest Society. Full forty days he pass'd, whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient Oak, Or Cedar, to defend him from the dew, Or harbour'd in one Cave, is not reveal'd; Nor tasted humane food, nor hunger felt Till those days... | |
| 1908 - 484 pages
...Milton now and again cleverly removes the traditional limits of the heroic line, as in PR, I, 305-6 : Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar / to defend him from the dew (and cf. PL, vi, 775-76 ; VIH, 586-87) and reverts, so to speak, for a while to a kind of metrical... | |
| John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1908 - 442 pages
...Milton now and again cleverly removes the traditional limits of the heroic line, as in PR, i, 305-6: Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar / to defend him from the dew (and cf. PL, VI, 775-76; vm, 586-87) and reverts, so to speak, for a while to a kind of metrical prose... | |
| John Milton - 1909 - 500 pages
...Such solitude before choicest society. Full forty days he passed—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
| 1909 - 502 pages
...Such solitude before choicest society. Full forty days he passed—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
| John Milton - 1909 - 478 pages
...Such solitude before choicest society. Full forty days he passed—whether on hill Sometimes, anon in shady vale, each night Under the covert of some ancient oak Or cedar to defend him from the dew, Or harboured in one cave, is not revealed; Nor tasted human food, nor hunger felt, Till those days... | |
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