 | Nathaniel Morton - 1669 - Počet stránok 562
...The poets knew how to use this superstition of the baneful influence of comets to advantage : — " Like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from its horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." MILTOX. " Comets, importing change... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - Počet stránok 648
...their blood with morning's light*5. But we rolled away, like wreaths And like a comet burned, Thatjires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. As an instance of variations, death, or pestilence, in the first edition, attends its gre en course;... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1805 - Počet stránok 540
...a careful reader of Massinger, probably formed tke magnificent and awful picture which follows : " On the other side, " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood " Unterrified,- and like a comet bitrn'd, " That fires the length of Ophiucus huge " In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair " Shakes... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 590
...indignation, Satan stood Unterrify'd ; and like a comet hurn'd, That fires the length of Ophinchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Level'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - Počet stránok 416
...passage in Paradise Lost : " So Satan stood, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war." The different nature of the objects considered, your passage has no inferiority ; the epithet wavering... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - Počet stránok 546
...a careful reader of Massinger, probably formed the magnificent and awful picture which follows : " On the other side, " Incensed with indignation, Satan stood " Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, '' That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge " In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair "... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - Počet stránok 430
...with indignation, Satan stood TJnterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiucns huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. Milton has here exceeded his originals in sublimity ; and his comparison is applied with much greater... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Počet stránok 832
...deform. On the other side, Incau'd with indignation, Satan stood L'nterrified, and like a comet burn'd, et unknown, Till all is mov'd by Chance alone. " A...builds a country-seat, Then finds the walls not g Each at the head LereU'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands No second stroke intend ; and such a frown... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - Počet stránok 342
...deform : on th' other side, Incens'd with indignation, Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet bnrn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 Shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head • « LevelM his deadly aim ; their fatal hands Jfo... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - Počet stránok 226
...grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes... | |
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So spake the grisly terror, and in shape, So speaking: and so threatening, grew tenfold More dreadful and deform : on the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge... 
