 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood , Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. ment dominateur, s'élevait comme une tour. Sa forme n'avait... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood , Their g\ory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. ment dominateur , s'élevait comme une tour. Sa forme n'avait... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 584 pages
...the scorching heat emitted from the melted rock ; an image recalling those beautiful lines : — " As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath." Form, composition, and origin of the dikes. — But without... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...same image, when speaking of the fallen angels : — ' faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd ; as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath." Both pines and firs, between which there is a very close... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...éternelles splendeurs pour sa révolte , For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 680 pages
...Milton is, no doubt, the P. sylvéstris: — Speaking of the fallen angels, he says, — " Faithful how they stood, Their glory withered ; as when Heaven's...mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on tbe blasted heath." Sir Walter Scott, also, mentions the Scotch pine in the... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...dreaded powers of destruction must always have a tincture of the sublime. " As when heaven's fire Has scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines ; With singed...stately growth, tho bare, Stands on the blasted heath." ' If we next take a view of those animals that are called picturesque, the same qualities are found... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...for his fault amerced Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood Their glory withered ! as when Heaven's...fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With'singed top their stately growth, though bare. Stands on the blasted heath. Impressive images,... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain 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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
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Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately... 
