 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera: 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 Deceiv'd ; they fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...they roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megaera. 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 Earle - 1871 - 644 pages
...Laws, &c. Preface, iv. I. near (comparative of nigh). hat which ; Sodom f Paradise Lost, x. 562. ' The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd.' next (superlative). ' Happy the man whom this bright Court approves, His sov'reign favours,... | |
 | Virgil - 1871 - 376 pages
...and, up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megxra. 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... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1873 - 1226 pages
...shall find witbif them coles aud cyndres." Milton fiueh/ al* ludes to this fruit in the lines : — " Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom tíamed. This more delusive, not to touch but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megrora :1 greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake 2 where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking... | |
 | John Earle - 1873 - 736 pages
...here conversant.' — Richard Hooker, Of the Laws, &c. Preface, iv. I. near (comparative of nigh). ' The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd.' Paradise Lost, x. 562. next (superlative). ' Happy the man whom this bright Court approves,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...and, up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Meg^ra. Greedily they pluek'd 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... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1873 - 1230 pages
...coles and cyndres." Milton finely alludes to this fruit in the lines : — " Greedily they pluck'd Tho fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. This more delusive, not to touch but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megaera. Greedily they plucked 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... 
