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" Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle. "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ... - Page 79
by John Milton - 1763
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...him Mulciber : and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the JEgeiai...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean...
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The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon

John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...Mulciber ; and how he fell 740 From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A. summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, . 745 On Lemnos,...
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The Age of Fable, Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes

Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 508 pages
...Lemnos, which was thenceforth sacred to him. Milton alludes to this story in Paradise Lost, Book I. " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the...
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A diary of a journey to the East, in the autumn of 1854, 2 vols, Volume 2

William Beamont - 1856 - 346 pages
...Vulcan, of whom ' " How he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, th' jEgean...
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The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and ..., Volumes 1-3

Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...could write the plainest English. For example, when speaking of the fall of Vulcan, he said : — " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day i aud with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star." And yet the same...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...forth. Book i. Line 679. Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven. Book i. Line 742. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day. Book ii. Line 2. The wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Book ii. Line 5. By merit raised To...
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The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Volume 1

Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn - United States - 1856 - 566 pages
...represents both the distance through which, and the speed with •which, Mulciber fell from heaven : — From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun, Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star. What art is manifest...
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Selections from Paradise lost: with notes, by R. Demaus

John Milton - 1857 - 198 pages
...Muleiber ; and how he fell 740 From heav'n they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the erystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, 745 On Lemnos, th'...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 9

1857 - 692 pages
...represents both the distance through which, and the speed with which, Mulciber fell from heaven : " ' From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun, Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star.' " What art is...
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