 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew ! From their foundations loos'ning to and fro They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops 645 Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seia'd the rebel host, When coming... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...the lightning-glimpse they ran, they flew ; From their foundations loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Up-lifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel-host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...composes out of them the following great image : From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands, yi. 643. We have the full majesty of Homer in this short description, improved by the imagination of... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1823 - 320 pages
...circumstances, but what are truly sublime. From their foundations loos'niug to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters,...woods ; and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them with their hands. This idea of the giants throwing the mountains, which is in itself so grand, Claudinn... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...lightning's glimpse, they ran, they flew ; From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods ; and, by the shaggy tops Uplifted, bore them in their hands. — Paradise Lost. V. — Examples of INTEB.ROGAT.IOK, or Questioning.... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - Cats - 1824 - 292 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew : From their foundations loos'ning to and fro They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load. Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands : amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming toward them so dread they saw The bottom... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...643. From their foundation *ion and in this sportive man- &c.] There is nothing in the They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops first and last day's engagement •which does not appear natural, and agreeable enough to the ideas... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...tlieir foundations loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their lost Hocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Up-lifting bore them in their hands : amaze, Be sure, and terrour, sciz'd the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...lightning glimpse they ran, they flew ; From their foundations loosening to ajid fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the eliaggy tops 645 Uplifting bore them in their hands : Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host,... | |
 | 1828 - 608 pages
...that are not properly sublime. " From their foundation* loos'nlng to and fro. They plucked the lealeil hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods ;...shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands." If it be inquired, what are the proper sources of the sublime? the answer is, that they are to be looked... | |
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They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains... 
