 ... shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or 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...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ... - Page 12by Walter Scott - 1841Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1896 - 252 pages
...obsolete sense. 66o-673. The other . . . had on. Burke says (Sublime and Beautiful, Part 2, Sec. 3) : 'In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree.' 670. As Night. Od. 11 : 606, 'He [Heracles], like black Night.' 676. So (II. 7 : 213, 215), as Ajax... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...obsolete sense. 666-673. The other . . . had on. Burke says (Sublime and Beautiful, Part 2, Sec. 3) : 'In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree.' 670. As Night. Od. 11 : 606, ' He [Heracles], like black Night.' 676. So (II. 1 : 213, 215), as Ajax... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...obsolete sense. 666-673. The other . . . had on. Burke says (Sublime and Beautiful, Part 2, Se,c. 3): 'In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree.' 670. As Night. Oil. 11 : 606, ' He [Heracles], like black Night.' 676. So (II. 7 : 213, 215), as Ajax... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECT. IT. — OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pages
...terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECT. IV. — OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS IT is one... | |
 | William Dunseath Eaton - 1920 - 280 pages
...thing as a Bible on board, dig it up and turn to the fourth chapter of Job, and there you may read, "Now, a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine...a little thereof. "In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep f alleth upon men, "Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all of... | |
 | Einar Nylén - 1924 - 322 pages
...belysa varje känsloskiftning. Den älskade Milton därför att hos honom, som Burke uttrycker det, »all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree». Den sentimentale öppnar sig för andra, framlägger sitt och mottager ett annat hjärtas hemligheter;... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 pages
...judicious obscurity, than Milton. His description of Death in the second book is admirably studied, ... all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree.' (The Sublime and Beautiful, 1757, i. 7, ii. 2, 3.) PAGE 17, 1. 24. Thursday society : ' The Nonsense Club... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 614 pages
...ternble as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The liheneis of a kingly crown had on} In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. SECT. IV. Of the Difference Between CLEARNESS and OBSCURITY with Regard to the PASSIONS. It is one... | |
 | 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... | |
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