Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low... The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 37by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...still) That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what compulsion, and laborious (light 80 We sunk thus... | |
| Francis S. Higginson - Northern Ireland in literature - 1825 - 586 pages
...exultation at that success which, it must be acknowledged, they had arduously obtained. CHAPTER XVII. - Who but felt, of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compunction and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 526 pages
...levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. -Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear \ Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ; descent and fall To us is advertc. t this availeth nought ? Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat: Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce Foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight 80 We sunk thus... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, 25 Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...still. That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat; descent and fall t. To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep., With what compulsion and laborious flight, We sunk thus... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend W Up to our native seat : Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce Foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight S3 We sunk thus... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting , and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus... | |
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