 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pages
...qualjty, and the properties of things generally. The following are conspicuous examples of quantity. " Nine times the space that measures day and night, To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished." " But his doom Reserved him to more wrath." Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 pages
...quality, and the properties of things generally. The following are conspicuous examples of quantity. " Mne times the space that measures day and night, To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished." " But his doom Reserved him to more wrath." Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...Rais'd impious war in Heaven, and battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power.. Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous...and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal: but his doom Reserv'd him to more... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...verse should like the torrent roar. k— Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong from the ethereal skies With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire. Feeble — But I am not now That which I have been — and my visions flit Less palpably before me... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hnrl'd headlong flaming I'rom th' ethereal sky, 45 With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chsins and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1835 - 326 pages
...ancient Tarsus held." " him th' almighty Sire Hurl'd headlong, flaming, from th' setherial height, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantin chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms." And the dramatist borrowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 348 pages
...battle proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, 45 With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...perdition; there to dwell In adamantine chains and nenal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...tête en bas, de la voûte éthérée; ruine hideuse et brûlante : il tomba dans le gouffre sans fond To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...bottomless perdition, there to dwell u. " ' \N In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures...and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal : but his doom Reserved him to more... | |
 | Lester R. Kurtz, Jennifer E. Turpin - 1999 - 857 pages
...the underworld, which waits to engulf him: Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire. (Milton, Paradise lost, 1667) This miserable existence fills him with hate — hate that he expresses... | |
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