 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 350 pages
...from its more accursed neighbour ; and prune off all but the smallest infamies. " Thrice be essayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears such as angels...forth ; at last Words interwove with sighs found out tbeir way." As strong yet unsuccessful have our endeavours been to bring articulate discrimination... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...brave the storm, such might her emblem be." MRS. HEMANS. " Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in •pite of scorn. Tears such as angels weep, burst forth,...Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way." MILTON. FOR a few minutes after Mrs. Sidney left the apartment, Viola remained with her eyes bent on... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels...at last Words interwove with sighs found out their wa~ " Oh myriads of immortal spirits, oh powers Matchless but with the Almighty ; and that strife Was... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers ; attention held them mute : Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels...Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O myriads of immortal spirits ! O pow'rs " Matchless, but with the Almighty ! and that strife " Was... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, while the north-wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's...element Scowls o'er the darken'd lamlskip snow, or sh How such united force of gods, how such As stood like these, could ever know repulse? For who can yet... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels...Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. " O myriads of immortal spirits! O powers Matchless, but with the Almighty; and that strife Was not... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice heassay'd, and thrice, in spite ofscoru, Tears , such as angels weep , burst forth ; at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way : « О myriads of immortal spirits ! О powers Matchless, but with the Almighty ; and that strife... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, e blossoms also, and those dropping gums. That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, A iuterwove with sighs, found out their way. •' O myriads of immortal spirits, O powers Matchless,... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...minds, something of mortal interest, when he is thus represented by the poet : " Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." If Milton failed in this respect, he failed only where success was impossible.* " Lord Bacon" is a... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels...Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. He scarce had finished, when such murmur filled The assembly, as when hollow rocks retain The sound... | |
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To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove... 
