 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...obey ; So hear the scaly herd when I'roteus blows,* And so to pasture follow through the sea. 16 ,To see this fleet upon the ocean move ^- Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; ' 1<-«««««»>'i And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, »- • * £n. ' (« For tapers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...description of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very compleat specimen of the descriptions in this poem : 10 "And now approach'd their fleet from India,... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 360 pages
...distinction consists. 1756. BURKE, I., p. 63. The following is indecently hyperbolical : — • To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies, etc. 1781. S. JOHNSON, VII., p. 317. Occasionally throughout the whole history of the term, and especially... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Peter Peterson - 1899 - 216 pages
...follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; The description of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very complete specimen of the descriptions... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 pages
...English fleet about to sail against the Dutch, he thinks to heighten the description by saying : — To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. The Almighty is represented snuffing out the Fire : — A hollow crystal pyramid He takes, In firmamental... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? 'To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...description of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very 252 complcat specimen of the descriptions in this poem : 'And now approach'd their fleet from India,... | |
 | Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1907 - 766 pages
...perihelion on 24 April, 1665. Dryden refers to both in the Annas Alirabilis, stanzas xvi.-xviii. : — " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise." It is conjectured that the later comet gave rise to Milton's famous simile : — " Like a comet burned,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1114 pages
...AnnftUn (d) Proteus blows, '^T^, And so to pasture follow thro /,/,,„,„._ VIKthe sea. 60 onXVI To when the cause becomes so general. And I cannot imagine it has resolv'd the ruin of H eav'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise ; xvn Whether they... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1911 - 234 pages
...looking all over creation, for you, etc. Even in poetry there may be an excessive use of them. " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise." Annus Mirabilis : Dryden. " Give way, and let the gushing torrent come ; Behold the tears we bring... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...situation should be contrasted Dryden's attempt at supernatural decoration in an earlier stanza : — To see this fleet upon the ocean move Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. (16) Dryden's ' Heaven ' is the old dome, the concave covering of a circular flat earth. His conception... | |
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To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. 
