So spake the grisly terror, and in shape, So speaking: and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge... The World of Comets - Page 26by Amédée Guillemin - 1877 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...their blood with morning's light*5. But we rolled away, like wreaths And like a comet burned, Thatjires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. As an instance of variations, death, or pestilence, in the first edition, attends its gre en course;... | |
| Philip Massinger - English drama - 1805 - 540 pages
...indignation, Satan stood " Unterrified,- and like a comet bitrn'd, " That fires the length of Ophiucus huge " In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair " Shakes pestilence and war." That sit there as my judges, to determine* The life and death of Malefbrt, where are now Those shouts,... | |
| 1828 - 590 pages
...indignation, Satan stood Unterrify'd ; and like a comet hurn'd, That fires the length of Ophinchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
| Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 pages
...passage in Paradise Lost : " So Satan stood, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." The different nature of the objects considered, your passage has no inferiority ; the epithet wavering... | |
| 1811 - 438 pages
...Salan alootl Unlerrify'd, and like a Come( burn'd, " That fires the length ofOphiucbus hnge " In tli' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair " Shakes pestilence and war." PARADISE LOST. There is, however, nothing in the appearance of this mysterious stranger " in the arctic sky" that... | |
| Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 pages
...the other side, " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood " Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, '' That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge " In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair " Shaken pestilence and war." That sit there as my judges, to determine1 The life, and death of Malefort,... | |
| Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...with indignation, Satan stood TJnterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiucns huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Milton has here exceeded his originals in sublimity ; and his comparison is applied with much greater... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...deform. On the other side, Incau'd with indignation, Satan stood L'nterrified, and like a comet burn'd, et unknown, Till all is mov'd by Chance alone. " A...builds a country-seat, Then finds the walls not g Each at the head LereU'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...deform : on th' other side, Incens'd with indignation, Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet bnrn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head • « LevelM his deadly aim ; their fatal hands Jfo... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic...and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
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