| Treasury - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...and shades of death. Book ii. Line 620. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. Book ii. Line 628. The other shape, If shape it might be called that...For each seemed either — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart. Booh ii. Line 670. Whence and what... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 Seiten
...cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. 129. DEATH AND SATAN. (Book II.) The other shape, If shape it might be called that...seemed* For each seemed either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dnrt; what seemed his head The likeness... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 Seiten
...power in the poet's hand. The King of Terrors is thus described in the Second Book : — " The otlier shape,— If shape it might be called, that shape...For each seemed either : black• it stood as night, Fierce as ten juries, terrible as Hell, And shopk-a'dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness... | |
| 1869 - 776 Seiten
...prosecution might suddenly vanish into thin air, since he knew not under what shape it existed — " ' If shape it might be called, that shape had none,...limb, — Or substance might be called that shadow seem'd ; For each seem'd either, — what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly erown had on.' "... | |
| 1886 - 982 Seiten
...compares ' le peuple-roi ' and its rule with Milton's hell-monsters : — Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook...seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In short, he shatters the ideal of his compatriots in the most cruel and reckless fashion, and does... | |
| David Quint - 1993 - 448 Seiten
...Charybdis on either side "before the gates" (649) of Hell. It is Death who is a "shapelesse shape": The other shape, If shape it might be called that...called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; (PL 2.666-70) while Sin takes on the more specific description of Fletcher's Sin, the dissembled woman's... | |
| Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 Seiten
...clinch his point about obscurity, Burke offers the following "description of Death" from Paradise Lost: The other shape, If shape it might be called that...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his... | |
| Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 Seiten
...expressive uncertainty of strokes and colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might be called that...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his... | |
| Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 Seiten
...Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook...seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short lines pack in an astonishing variety of associated meanings.... | |
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