 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides 930 Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been failing, had not by ill chance The strong... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides 930 Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling had not by ill chance 93.5 The... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...many a league, As in a cloudy chair, Ascending rides 930 Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity: all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep; and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance 935 The... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 874 pages
...and, like the Devil, in Milton, travelling through the antient realms of Night and Chaos, who meets A vast vacuity : all unawares Fluttering his pennons vain plumb down he drops; so, methought, fell we ; and, when we got to the bottom, found ourselves ensconsed in two Frebendal... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...many a league, As in aclondy chair, ascending, rides 930 Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour Down bad been failing, had net by ill chance 935 The... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : All unawares Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep ; and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...thence manyaleague, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity. All unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep ; and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The... | |
 | 1822 - 858 pages
...of the tale then becomes a miracle of rabbinical learning at twelve years of age ; and then, meeting A vast vacuity ; all unawares, Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep" into -a yawning chasm, where he is lost, — shall 1 say for 1 7 years... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets . drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...him, &c. And Tasso, Gierusal. Liberat. c. ix. st. 6. Indi spicga al gran volo i vanni aurati. Dututer. A vast vacuity : all unawares Fluttering his pennons vain plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour Down had been falling, had not by ill chance The strong... | |
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Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity ! all unawares Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb down he drops Ten thousand fathom deep... 
