 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1864 - 1096 pages
...in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds ; before each ran Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions...arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns." The brazen gate of the Temple, which required twenty men to move it on its hinges, flew open of its... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds; before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms From either end... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battel in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears...of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air 640 In whirlwind:... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1865 - 816 pages
...testified to the appearance described by Milton : — " As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds ; before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...the goal with rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form: as when, to warn proud cities, war appears waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush to battle in...of arms from either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others with vast Typhcean rage more fell rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air in whirlwind:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 972 pages
...in the shock of battle. The following in the second book of Paradise Lost best explains it: •• As when, to warn proud cities, war appears, Wag'd...arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns." * This double negative had (he force of a stronger affirmative a the language of that age. So in Kiclmrd... | |
 | Edward Walford - English language - 1867 - 84 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in...of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhoean rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind... | |
 | George Henry Duncan Mathias - Self-culture - 1867 - 292 pages
..."Armorum sonitum totoGermania coelo Audiit," expanded into "As when to warn proud cities war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery heights, and crush their spears, Till thickest legions close." In his similes taken from nature, where... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions...of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhcean rage, more fell, Rend up hoth rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind... | |
 | Jerusalem - 1870 - 158 pages
...of a wild and extraordinary character : — • " As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds ; before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close with feats of arms. From either end... | |
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Olympian games or Pythian fields ; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van... 
