 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
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 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... | |
 | American literature - 1968 - 328 pages
...Milton, Satan shaken with remorse as he surveys the fallen followers of his pride: Thrice he assay' d, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears such as angels weep burst forth; at last Words interwoven with sighs found out their way. Is there even in Shakespeare a greater moment? And Shakespeare... | |
 | Galbraith Miller Crump - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 196 pages
...Hermes Trismegistus. 2. See Georges Poulet, Les.Melamorphosesducercle,pp.9-\0. thir doubl'd Ranks . . . From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his Peers. (I. 616-18) The basic design of Paradise Lost is similar to that which Cedric Whitman has described... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...thoojh 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 With all hi.- peers : attention held them mnta. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn. Tears, such... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 188 pages
...them mute. Satan is so overcome by the spectacle that he cannot speak momentarily: Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears such as Angels...forth: at last Words interwove with sighs found out thir way. (1.619-21) He begins his speech bemoaning "this dire change / Hateful to utter" (625-26)... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...floating many a rood" (1:196); the second describes Satan as he is about to speak to the fallen angels: "and thrice in spite of scorn, / Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth" (1:619-20). 9.34 (184:37). Ed egli avea del culfatto trombetta - Italian: "And of his arse he made... | |
 | William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...These lines from book i describe Satan: He now prepared To speak: whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: auention held them mute. li.6i5-i8) We have here only an echo of the opening words of the second book... | |
 | Joan D. Hedrick - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 544 pages
...such evident sympathy that Harriet was quite enlisted in Satan's favor. When he reached the passage, "Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, / Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth," he burst into tears himself.13 Harriet loved these stories as much for their drama as for their religious... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...conceals his defeat, Satan holds his audience mute in anticipation of his oration: "Thrice he assay'd and thrice in spite of scorn / Tears such as Angels...forth: at last / Words interwove with sighs found out thir way" (1.619-21). Satan uses rhetoric and gestures to smooth over any signs of conflict or self-contradition,... | |
 | Janet Lungstrum, Elizabeth Sauer - Philosophy - 1997 - 376 pages
...conceals his defeat, Satan holds his audience mute in anticipation of his oration: "Thrice he assay'd and thrice in spite of scorn / Tears such as Angels...forth: at last / Words interwove with sighs found out thir way" (1.619-21). Satan uses rhetoric and gestures to smooth over any signs of conflict or self-contradiction,... | |
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