 The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed; For each seemed either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...  The Quarterly Review - Page 90edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short lines pack in an astonishing variety of associated meanings.... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...it might be called that shape has none," a passage applied to the obese king also by its final line, "What seemed his head/ The likeness of a kingly crown had on." wanting . . . What I am above all things anxious to see is such a narrative as may, without^/orma/... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - History - 1999 - 416 pages
...empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand. —John Milton, Paradise Lost II We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 275 pages
...either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Burke relates this description to his chosen categories of obscurity, terror, and privation. But his... | |
 | Hugh Ross Williamson - History - 2002 - 380 pages
...joint or limb" And such, Your Lordships will admit, "that shadow seemed for each seemed either" and "what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Yet under this shape, this "airy nothing" I am to face the adverse party. I am to be met at every turn... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2003 - 364 pages
...seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description, all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible, and sublime to the last degree. |... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...either; black it stood as night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides,... | |
 | Francois Flahault - Philosophy - 2003 - 212 pages
...either - black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.* In view of Burke's quotations from the Book of Job (man annihilated in the face of the Almighty) and... | |
 | Alexander Tzonis - Architecture - 2004 - 554 pages
...seemed either; black be flood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is dark, uncertain, confused, terrible and sublime to the last degree. Sect.... | |
 | Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. Book III 1-6, 2 1 -$ 5: the second invocation The second invocation stands as a hymn to celestial light... | |
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