 | John Milton - 1892 - 406 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks 559 That curled Megsera. 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 - 1892 - 654 pages
...locks But on they rolled in heaps, and, up the trees That curled Megaera. Greedily they plucked 560 The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake vvhere Sodom flamed; This, more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived; they, fondly thinking... | |
 | Columbus Horticultural Society, Columbus, Ohio - 1894 - 188 pages
...they rolled 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,...Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spluttering noise rejected." Tennyson would seem to have borrowed Milton's idea, for in the Holy Grail... | |
 | John Milton - 1894 - 360 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megsera. Greedily they plucked 56« 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pages
...held A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gather'd, and ambrosial smell diffused. MILTON. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage, fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom 8amed. MILTON. The force of that fallacious fruit, That with exhilarating vapour bland About their... | |
 | Stephen Humphreys Villiers Gurteen - 1896 - 536 pages
...up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megaera. 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 - 1903 - 396 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megsera. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1904 - 326 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megasra. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1905 - 288 pages
...tiees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megeera : * greedily they plucked 560 The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake t where Sodom flamed ; This, more delusive, not the touch but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking... | |
 | Charles Allen Dinsmore - 1906 - 374 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 flam'd, This more delusive not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd ; 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... 
