 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...fields : Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battel in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their speai>s dans une... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...fields : Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To batte! in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears dans une... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others with vast Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills,... | |
 | Richard John King - 1840 - 124 pages
...possible, that the recent reports of such appearances suggested the lines of the Paradise Lost— " As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in...the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds—before each van Prick forth-the airy knights—and couch their spears Till thickest legions... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...fields : Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form : As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in...battle in the clouds ; before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd сопаге came at lost ; Where dwelt a good old honest yc'man, Call'd in ihc neighborhood aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...fields : Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form : As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush 535 To battle in the clouds ; before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...fields; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in...battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...civil butchery." Milton abo finely employs similar imagery in the second book of "PARADISE LOST:" — " As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in...battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close. With feats of arms From either end... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to worn proud cities, war appears Wag'd u my good : by thee at least Divided empire with Heaven's King I bold. By thee, and more than aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms s'rom either... | |
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Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each... 
