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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The ... - Page 135
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 20

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...your husband 1 He's a traitor. — Thou lyest, thou «Лау-eared villain ! Shakspeare. They plucked the seated hills with all their load. Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Milton's Paradise Lost. There, where very desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 648 pages
...but what are properly sublime : From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the sratcd hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods ;...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Whereas Claudian, in a fragment upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this idea of their...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 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, woods, and by the shaggy tops 645 Uplifting bore them in their hands : Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming...
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Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With Questions

Hugh Blair - English language - 1831 - 284 pages
...circumstances, but what are truly sublime : From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, ' They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods ; and by the shnggy tops Uplifting bore them with their handsThis idea of the giants throwing the mountains, -which...
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The Light of Nature Pursued, Volume 2

Abraham Tucker - Philosophy - 1831 - 472 pages
...Milton's angels, and without the trouble of loosening to and fro, from their foundations may pluck the seated hills with all their load, rocks, waters, woods, and by their bases broad uplifting rear them high in air, or toss with rapid whirl o'er ocean's furthest bourne....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 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 towards them so direct they saw The...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 47

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 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 towards them so direct they saw The...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...illustrated from Milton's battle of the angels 1 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. This idea of the giants throwing the mountains, which is in itself so grand, is rendered, by Claudian,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...circumstances but what are properly sublime: From Iheir 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. Whereas Claudian, in a fragment "upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this idea of...
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Oeuvres completes, Volume 36

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 pages
...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 Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terrour, seized die rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The...
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