 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near...to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spatteriag noise rejected: oft they assay'd, Hunger... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...up tho trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megaera : grcediry they pluck'd flam'd : This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd : they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...and, up the trees Climbing sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megcera: greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom ilam'-i . This more delusive , not the touch but taste Decciv'd; they fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megeera. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near...to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they assay'd, Hunger... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera:1 greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd : they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera : l greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd : they, fondly thinking to allay Their... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 376 pages
...Near that bituminous lake where Sodom f am'd; This more delusive not the touch, but taste. Deceiv'd ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit 565 550 fair] * Their penance laden with fair fruit, like that.' So the verse stood in the first ed.;... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...That curled Megaera.i Greedily they plucked 560 The fruitage, fair to sight like that which grew 8 Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This...to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit 5G5 Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they assayed,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1855 - 902 pages
...lost — " A grove (spring up, laden witli fair fruit : — • greedily they plucked The frnitage, fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake, where Sodom flamed. This, more delusion, not the touch, but taste Deceived. They, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megaera. Greedily they pluck'd ** The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake* where Sodom flamed; 1 AY'ir that bitumtnotu lake. The Dead Sea, or the lake Asphaltites, so called from the bitumen which... | |
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The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which... 
