 To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3861852Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 302 pages
...to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth He now prepar'd The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend, From wing to win;;, and half inclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, snch as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil... | |
 | Erinaceus (pseud.) - 1809 - 78 pages
...can the good receive, nor bad expel." — DHYDEN. , . 40 And thus bespeak, Sic." Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, " Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last "Words, intenvove with sighs, found out their way." — MILTON. 43 You feel, with me, #c. — His lordship... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 pages
...Henowprepar'd 615 Tofpeak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclofe him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he afiay'd, and thrice, in fpite of fcorn, Tears, fuch as Angels weep, burft forth : at lafl fents the... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round...all his peers; attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 348 pages
...same guilt and ruin with himself. — He now prepar'd Tospeak; whereat their doubled ranks they bond , From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them aiute. Thrice he essay'd ; and thrice, in spite of scorn,. Tears, such as angels weep, burst fortli... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...growth, though Stand on the blasted heath. He uow prepar'd To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peer* : attention held them mute. Thrice he assav'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as arigeU... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...in the same guilt and ruin with himself. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round...all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay 'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...flung For hi* revolt .. Mark the effect : i. He now prepar'd To speak •-• •• Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Book I. v. 604, &c. Nor has Virgil suffered the unnatural and abandoned Mezentius, equally the contemner... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...harvest-man ; with the other he conceals the only wound he ever reFrom wing to wing-, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them...Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last Words interwQre with sighs, found out their way. Par. Lost. I. 604 ceived, which Christ the conqueror inflicted... | |
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