 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
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...hare, 615 Stands on the hlasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their douhled ranks they hend 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, C20 Tears, such as angels weep, hurst forth : at last Words,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend, From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With nil eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations as'angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak : whereat their double 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 Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...though bore, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they * / / / / /V,-/./// / 'f) / U / / / / assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, iuterwove... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they consultations dark Ended, rejoicing in their matchless...chief: As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...minds, something of mortal interest, when he is thus represented by the poet : " Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." If Milton failed in this respect, he failed only where success was impossible.* " Lord Bacon" is a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...though bare, Stands on the blasted heath, lie now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they TS 9 j 1 1 o ꐍ r ^ɑ v G h(yO WľxdsN u G_*^;' K ~ 3G h ] W] x v T 3 9y assay'd ; and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at lost Word«,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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 assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, > Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...prepared 615 To speak ; whereat, their doubled ranks they bend, From wing to wing, and half inclose him round, With all his peers : attention held them...scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. At last 620 Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O Myriads of immortal Spirits ! O Powers !... | |
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