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" 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... "
An Analytical Inquiry Into the Principles of Taste - Page 358
by Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 471 pages
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat, their doubled ranks they be,nd From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he e'ssay'd, and thrice, in...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wiag to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers...of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. O Myriads of immortal Spirits ! O Powers...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 7-8

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...innumerable spirits whom he had involved in the same guilt and ruin with himself: — He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend,...all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.— i. 61S. The catalogue...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...innumerable spirits whom he had involved in, the same guilt and ruin with himself: • He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend, From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 6

Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 294 pages
...his survey of those innumerable spirits whom he had involved in the same guilt and ruin with himself. He now prcpar'd To speak; whereat their doubled ranks...of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pines, With ainged top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd ostrate / inclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice be essay'd, and thrice in spite...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...pines, With singed top their stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd eis To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...wing, and half inclose him round Vith all his peers : attention held them mute : [Tirice he assay 'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last 620 vVords interwove with signs found out their way. " О myriad? of immortal spirits! О...
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The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J ...

John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...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,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From whig to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he essay 'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth : at last 620 Words,...
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