 thud, buzz, hubbub, murmur, hiss, rattle, boom; names taken from sounds: cuckoo, whip-poor-will, bumble-bee, humming-bird, crag; words so arranged that the sound expresses the meaning: — "... On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound...  The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application - Page 99by Adams Sherman Hill - 1891 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Dodd, Joseph Addison - 1762 - 264 pages
...Spirit. Poetical, as the opening of them is full of Milton's • On afujden open fly With imfttuous Recoil and jarring Sound Th' infernal Doors, and on their Hinges grate Uarjh Thunder, that the loiueji Bottom Jhook Of Ere bus. SL-e ofen'd, but to Jhut Excell'd her Po<vcer... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1789 - 500 pages
...ever read this Claufe, but it brings to my Mind that admired Defcription in MILTON: —— On a fudden open fly, With impetuous Recoil, and jarring Sound, Th' infernal Doors, and on their Hinges grate Harjti Thunder. Book II. 1. 879. It it a pleafing Employ, and a very laudable Office of true Criticifm,... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...ghosts J. Milton's description of the opening of hell-gates ought not here to be overlooked. ——— On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder ———— *. The same author has, in another performance, given an excellent specimen in this way,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...beteen the two exhibits to great advantage the art of the poet. The first is the opening hell's gates: With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. On a sudden, open fly. Observe the smoothness of the other : Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound!... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 320 pages
...speak the truth, I fear I made no little noise ; when, presently coming to the following lines : • On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grats Harsh thunder," &c. I in great transport threw open the door of my chamber, and found the greatest... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 316 pages
...and the creaking of bell-gates, in the description by Milton ; VOL. «. v 219 THE RAMBLER. V° &*• With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Open fly But many beauties of this kind, which the modems, and perhaps the ancients, have observed,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...of torn The description of the gates is very poetical, opening of them is full of Milton's spirit. On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She open'd, but to shut Excell'd her pow'r; the gates wide... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...and to speak the truth, I fear I made no little noise; when presently coming to the following lines ; On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, &c. I in great transport threw open the door of my chamber, and found the greatest part of the family... | |
 | English essays - 1804 - 952 pages
...The description of the tr;rt«:s is very poetical, as the opening of them is full of Milton's spirit: -On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom thoult Of Evcbus. She o|)ci)'d, but to shut Exoell'd hi r pow'r; the gates wide... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...copied from a book of no greater authority: in describing the gates pf hell, book ii. v. 879- he says, On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring...infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. In the history of Don Belllanes, when one of the knights approaches, as I remember, the castle of Brandezar,... | |
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