 | British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.' " Whether we listen to those who — ' More mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing, With...own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle — ' or those with whom the moral philosopher sympathises yet more — who ' Sat on a hill retired,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...pain up by the roots Thessalian pines, 545 And Lichas from the top of CEta threw Into the Euboic sea. Others, more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing...many a harp Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall 530 By doom of battle ; and complain that fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 pages
...321. There is a cool pleasure in the very sound of vale.. The English word is of the happiest chance. Milton has put vales in Heaven and Hell with the very...angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hopeless fall By doom of battle! and complain that fate Free virtue should inthrall to force or chance.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 560 pages
...BeelzebubO" PAT. Lost, Book I. II. 56-81. " To slumber here, as in the vales of Heaven." Book 1.1. 321. Delphic abstraction, a beautiful thing made more beautiful...angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hopeless fall By doom of battle! and complain that fate Free virtue should iuthrall to force or chance.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...roots Thessalian pines, MILTON. BOOK II And Lichas from the top of Octa threw Into th' Euboic sen. tal fray, enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but the harmony (What could it less when spirits... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...pain, up by the roots, Thessalian pines, And Lichas, from the top of (Eta, threw Into the Euboic sea. Others, more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing,...many a harp, Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall Hy doom of battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their song... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Into th1 Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated ill a silent valley, sing With notes angelical lo m m m m m m m m m m m m m m n m m m m m m m m+m,m-m m o m m&m'm"m#m$m%m o o(mDn@m enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but tho harmony (What could it less when spirits... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw Into the Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing...battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance. Their song was partial; but the harmony (What could it less when spirits... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...Lost, the description of the employments of the angels during the absence of Satan, some of whom " retreated in a silent valley, sing with notes angelical...heroic deeds and hapless fall by doom of battle," is the most perfect example of mingled pathos and sublimity. — What proves the truth of this noble... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...during the absence of Satan, some of whom " retreated in a silent valley, sing with notes angelicul to many a harp their own heroic deeds and hapless fall by doom of battle," is the most perfect example of mingled pathos and sublimity.—What proves the truth of this noble... | |
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Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance. 
