 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...his revolt : yet faithful now 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. Ibid. SATAN-EvU Qualities of. Satan, as a master, is bad... | |
 | Percy Adams Hutchinson - English poetry - 1912 - 572 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt, Jacob Zeitlin - English literature - 1913 - 532 pages
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. He was baffled, not confounded. He stood like a tower; or "As when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines ! " He is still surrounded with hosts of rebel »angels, armed warriors, who own him as their sovereign... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 272 pages
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. He was baffled, not confounded. He stood like a tower; or " As when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines!" He is still surrounded with hosts of rebel angels, armed warriors, who own him as their sovereign leader,... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - English language - 1913 - 280 pages
...The fallen angels stand (PL i. 612 ff.) — "Their glory withered. 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." More like the Homeric simile and longer — too long to quote... | |
 | Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - 1914 - 228 pages
...bank to "the leaves that fall in the forest at the first chill breath of autumn." 3 The bare simile, As, when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, 1 Iliad, z, 11. 459 ff. a Aeneid, 7, 11. 699 ff. a Iliad, 6, 1. 146; Aeneid, 6, 1. 309. revives Homer's... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...fault amerced Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung 6« For his revolt — yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered; as, when heaven's...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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...amerced Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt — yet faithful how they stood, 01 1 past, Age, in its hour of langour finds at last; What...the poor, 5 Demand a song — the Muse can give no though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 40 Pvgmies, a legendary nation of dwarfs,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...For his revolt — yet faithful how they stood, i¡ i \ Their glory withered; as when Heaven's tin> Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepartxl 10 Pvcmiea, a legendary nation of dwarfs,... | |
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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... 
