 Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from...  The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy, Politics ... - Page 123edited by - 1811 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause 505 To fill his ear, when contrary he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn ; he wonder'd, but not long Had leisure, wond'ring at himself now more ; 510 His visage drawn he felt... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...begin Your message, like to end as much in vain. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Ibid. b. 10. SEA. I loved to stand on some high beetling rock, Or dusky brow of savage promontory,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause 505 To fill his ear, when contrary he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn; he wonder'd, but not long Had leisure, wond'ring at himself now more; 510 His visage drawn he felt... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 404 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn: he wonder'd, but not long Had leisure, wondering at himself now more; His visage drawn he felt to sharp... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...sounds which St. Anthony listened to in the wilderness. I never shall forget the sounds on my night ; Iv never before that time fully felt the reception which the Author of All III in the Paradise Ixr.t intels with from the critics in the jiit, at the final close of his tragedy... | |
 | Slavery - 1830 - 210 pages
...sympathy or support soothe the perpetrator of such enormities, but let him hear — " On all sides, from innumerable tongues, " A dismal universal hiss, the sound " Of public scorn !" * See Note G. And it will well become a Christian Government to enforce strictly the apostolical... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear, when contrary he hears On all sides from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.'' • As to the ministers, they ought, if it were possible, to Le ex* August 5, 1830. cepted cepted from... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear, when contrary he hears On all sides from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn." ' As to the ministers, they ought, if it were possible, to be excepted from the general rule, and to... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 276 pages
...will inevitably, in the end, undergo the fate of Milton's personage, who heard — " On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn." With regard to the respect and deference, in general, due to the dead, the best manifestation of those... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 pages
...Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear : when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn : he wonder'd, but not long Had leisure, wondering at himself now more: His visage drawn he fell to... | |
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