 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...suddenly suspended ; deep guilt half revealed ; the untold secrets of a prison-house ; the terrific shape, ' if shape it might be called that shape had none distinguishable ;'— all these affect the mind more powerfully than any regular or distinct images of danger or of... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...suddenly suspended ; deep guilt half revealed ; the untold secrets of a prison-house ; the terri fie shape, ' if shape it might be called that shape had none distinguishable ;' — all these affect the mind more powerfully than any regular or distinct images of danger or of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...suddenly suspended ; deep guilt half revealed ; the untold secrets of a prison-house; the terrific shape, ' if shape it might be called that shape had none distinguishable ;'— all these affect the mind more powerfully than any regular or distinct images of danger or of... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - History - 1995 - 544 pages
...and Democrats to found the Republican party. 24. John Milton, Paradise Lost 2.666—67 (of Death): "The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none." abolished, fantastic visions of fraternity domineer in each brain-sick fancy which struts upon the... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...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... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 372 pages
...allegorical, but that this figure is a brilliant poetic instance of a hollowed-out abstraction, that "other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape...none / Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb" (PL 2.666-67, p. 49). Read against the chorus of Neoclassical complaints about Milton's use of allegory,... | |
 | Daniel Albright - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...Milton's description of Death in Paradise Last (1674): The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night. (2.666-7o) Shelley's Demogorgon,... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 338 pages
...what it can be called, recalls Death in Paradise Lost: The other shape — If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night137 In its consciously calling... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might he called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might he called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black be stood as night; Fierce as ten furies;... | |
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The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as... 
