 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 542 pages
...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by...perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. • Such as of late o'er pale Britannia />«</.] This line has been censured by a very good judge,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 532 pages
...timely aid, Inspir'd repuls'd battalions to engage. v/ jfrnd taught the doubtful battle where to_ragg. /So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests...past/ Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; Ajnd*_pleas jd_th ' Almighty's orders to perform , Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...So when an angel by divine command,, Hurls death and terror o'er a guilty land :-— He, pleas'd the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm." But though Satan may sometimes inflict death, I know not that he could ever give life. It was one of... | |
 | George Fulton - English language - 1814 - 452 pages
...middle, which is called the csesura, and another at the end, which is called the final pause ; as, 1. So when an angel — by divine command, With rising tempests — shakes a guilty land. 2. Know then thyself; presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind — is man. V. The first... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an Angel by...Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in jthe whirlwind and directs the storm.' Addison's... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...paths f| of pleasing sense I ran. Again, Profuse of bliss || and pregnant with delight. After the 5th : So when an angel || by divine command, With rising tempests || shakes a guilty land. After the 6th : Speed the soft intercourse || from soul to soul, Again, Then from his closing eyes... | |
 | James Andrew - English language - 1817 - 152 pages
...survey'd, To fainting squadrons sent a timely aid, Inspired repuls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by...and serene he drives the furious blast, And, pleas'd the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm." Addison. " O tbou... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...paths || of pleasing sense I ran. Again, Profuse of bliss || and pregnant with delight. After the 5th: So when an angel || by divine command, With rising tempests || shakes a guilty land. After the 6th: Speed the soft intercourse || from soul to soul. Again, "•i * Then from his closing... | |
 | William Coxe, John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - Great Britain - 1818 - 642 pages
...To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid ; Inspir'd re.puls'd battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by...serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleas'd the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. * Addison. f For the... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...all his readers retained a fearful recollection: " So when an angel, by Divine command, With ruing tempests shakes a guilty land, {Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past)," &c. But I shall let our poet defend himself, by explaining his own views. " I »in, and have always... | |
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So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs... 
