 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
 | Great Britain - 1812 - 670 pages
...common situation in poets both ancient and modern, as in Virgil and Milton ; Ter conata loqui, &c. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth, Sec. but we will venture to assert, that it was never painted in a manner half so lively, as by the... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing: to wing, and halt' enclose him round "With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thriee,in spite ol* scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last 630 Words,... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...now prepar'd. To speak ; whereat their donbled ranks they bend, From wing 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 The catalogue of evil... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 614 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... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...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 620 Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. - " O Myriads of immortal Spi'rits, O Powers... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 324 pages
...splendors flung For his revolt Mark the effect : - he now prepared To speak • Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth llinil< i. fiiH, &c. Nor has Virgil suffered the unnatural and abandoned Mezentius, equally the contemner... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...the same guilt and ruin with himself: — He now prepared 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 assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.— i. 61S. The catalogue... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend, From wing 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 The catalogue of evil... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...in the same guilt and ruin with himself. He now prcpar'd To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round...of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry,... | |
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