 | Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 570 pages
...brought out in the following extract from his sublime poem of Paradise Lost:— Greedily they pluckt The fruitage, fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake, where Sodom flam'd : This more delusive, not the touch but taste Deceiv'd ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...roll'd in heaps, and, up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megœra. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Dcceiv'd : they, fondly, thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...roll'd in heaps, and, up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks 560 That curl'd Megaera. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd : they, fondly, thinking to allay 565... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megœra : opening to some court's propitious shine, Or deep with diamonds in th Л'еаг that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd : This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...they roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megtcra : ; nor rising Sun On this delightful land ; flam'd : This more delusive, not the touch, but tasle Deceiv'd : they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | 1844 - 546 pages
...appetites of the fallen angels, condemned to assume the forms and dispositions of serpents, says,— The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom llam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd ; they, fondly, thinking to allay Their... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...eat the apples growing on trees resembling the forbidden tree of knowledge. -Greedily they plucked The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This, more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megaera ; greedily they pluck'd 560 The fruitage fair to sight ; like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks 1 hat curl'd Megsora ; greedily they pluck'd 560 The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This, more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
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The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which... 
