 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...Pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro, He tuggd, he shook, till down they came and drew 1650 The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sate beneath, Lords, Ladies, Captains, Councellors, or Priests, Thir choice nobility and flower, not... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...mountains tremble, those two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after...not only Of this, but each Philistian city round, Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. Samson, with these immixed, inevitably Pulled down the... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 324 pages
...mountains tremble, and two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro, He tuRg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after...sat beneath— Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, and priests, Their choice nobility and flower . . . • ••90 Samson with these unmix'd, inevitably... | |
 | John Milton - Drama - 1988 - 244 pages
...Mountains tremble, those two massie Pillars, With horrible convulsion to and fro, He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after...them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sate beneath, Lords, Ladies, Captains, Councellors, or Priests, Thir choice nobility and flower, not... | |
 | David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...Mountains tremble, those two massy Pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after...of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath. (1646-51) Like the Cromwell of Marvell's "Horatian Ode," Samson destroys "Pallaces and Temples" with... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro, He tuggd, he shook, till down they came and drew The mole, roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sate beneath, Lords, Ladies, Captains, Councellors, or Priests, Thir choice nobility andfower, not... | |
 | David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...the Messenger of Samson Agonistes as he recounts Samson's final act of heroism. He tugged, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after...flower, not only Of this but each Philistian city round Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. (SA 1650-56; my emphasis) Where Guy Fawkes aimed to assassinate... | |
 | William Graham Scroggie - 1994 - 1460 pages
...mountains tremble, and two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro, He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after...beneath — Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, and priests, Their choice nobility and flower . . . • • • * • Samson with these unmix'd, inevitably... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...mountains tremble, those two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after...Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, or priests, Reprinted from Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of Motives (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969),... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...oppression, their monarchy and aristocracy, With horrible convulsion to and fro They tugg"d, they shook — till down they came and drew The whole roof after...sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors, and priests, Their choice nobility !* The Girondists, who were the first republicans in power, weie... | |
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He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder, Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors... 
