 | Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 pages
...ruines , With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat, their doubled ranks they bend...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite... | |
 | John Kidd - Adaptation (Physiology) - 1833 - 410 pages
...state represented by Milton to have been felt by the fallen angel — " Thrice he essayed (to speak) ; and thrice, in spite of scorn, " Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth — " But the effect produced on his mind seems to have been momentary ; at least it certainly did... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 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 weep, burst fortli : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. n O myriads of immortal Spirits!... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...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 620 Words,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...crime condemned, &c. yet how they stood faithful. To speak ; whereat their douhled ranks they hend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With...all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essay 'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, hurst forth : at last 620 Words,... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on I in- blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks...of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ! at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way "O myriads of immortal spirits! O powers... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...those innumerable spirits whom he had Involved in the same guilt and ruin with himself: He now prepar'd bis peers: attention beld them mute. Thrice be essay'd, and thricu, in spite of scorn, Tears, such... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...tête passée à la flamme leur tronc majestueux , quoique nu , reste debout sur la lande brûlée. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his poets : attention held them mule. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...state represented by Milton to have been felt by the fallen angel — "Thrice he essayed (to speak); and thrice, in spite of scorn, " Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth — " But the effect produced on his mind seems to have been momentary ; nt least it certainly did... | |
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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 assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth... 
