 With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage: and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons...  Faust, a tragedy, tr. by capt. [C.H.] Knox - Page 25by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...lust and violence the house of God ' n courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious oities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest...night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night In Gibeah, when... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 720 pages
...and violence the house of God : In court and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,...night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Beliai, flown with insolence and wine. (Milton, liv. I.) des conversations, source des grâces,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...gross to love Vice for itself : to him no temple stood, Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist,...loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage : and when night 500 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine : Witness... | |
 | Henry Augustus Rawes - 1864 - 256 pages
...be : In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noiso Of riot aseeuds above their loftiest towers And injury and outrage...night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. And in fact there is much about the Puritans which we can... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who fill'd 480 With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts...loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage : and when night 600 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 510 pages
...thinking of those pests of London when he dictated the noble lines, — " And in luxurious cities, when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,...night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." sunrise, and that every inhabitant should take his turn... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 442 pages
...reigns, And in lumrious cilies, when the noise Of riot ascends above meir loftiest towers , And injuryand outrage; and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (Milton.liv. I.) § 2. LES MONDAINS. Au dix-septième siècle... | |
 | John Milton, Alex Monfries - 1867 - 120 pages
...better than 1 ; and, He loved Jane better than me. Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled 495 With lust and violence the house of God : In courts...loftiest towers, And injury and outrage ; and when night 500 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness... | |
 | Plutarch - 1867 - 190 pages
...times after the Stuart Restoration, when he wrote the noble lines : " And in luxurious cities, when the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,...night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." It is not impossible that Milton himself may have had his... | |
 | 1867 - 556 pages
...1 In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where tlie noise Of riot asceiuls above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage:...when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the son« Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night In Giheah,... | |
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