 What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.  Comus: A Mask - Page 64by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Max Ring - Great Britain - 1868 - 330 pages
...He blamed the brothers for letting the false enchanter escape by not snatching his wand. He said: " Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of...sits here In stony fetters fixed, and motionless; Tet stay; be not disturbed; now I bethink me, Some other means I have which may be used." He told them... | |
 | Max Ring - 1868 - 342 pages
...He blamed the brothers for letting the false enchanter escape by not snatching his wand. He said: " Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot fr^e the lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed, and motionless ; Tet stay ; bo not disturbed ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...? O ye mistook; ye should have snatch'd his wand 815 And bound him fast ; without his rod revers't, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady, that sits here In stony fetters fixt, and motionless; Yet stay, be not disturb'd; now I bethink me, 820 Some other means I have which... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Church and state - 1870 - 700 pages
...p. Si. 4 Ye should have snatch'd his wand. . . . Without his rod reversed, And backward mntterings of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless.' Only by reversing the wand of pretended hierarchical power which has exercised... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...Spirit. What, have you let the false enchanter 'scape ? O ye mistook, ye should have snatch'd his wand, And bound him fast ; without his rod reversed, And...cannot free the lady that sits here In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay, be not disturb'd ; now I bethink me, Some other means I have which... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...O ye mistook ; ye should have snatch't his wand 815 And bound him fast : without his rod revers't, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady, that sits here In stony fetters fixt, and motionless ; Yet stay, be not disturb'd ; now I bethink me, 820 Some other means I have which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...disenchanting. " Oh, ye mistook ! Ye should have snatched his wand And bound him fast. Without the rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sits here Bound in strong fetters fixed and motionless." To reverse the rod, to spell the charm backward, to... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 92 pages
...ye mistook, ye should have snatch'd his wand, 8 1 5 And bound him fast ; without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here 1 n stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay, be not disturb'd : now I bethink me, 820 Some other... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...What, have you let the false enchanter 'scape? 0, ye mistook; ye should have snatch'd his wand, 815 And bound him fast: without his rod reversed, And...dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here 797. And the brute earth: That is, the unfeeling earth would sympathize and Msist— T. WARTON. 800.... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...O ye mistook, ye should have snatch'd his wand, And bound him fast; without his rod reversed^ i ,:? And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sita hew . In stony fetters fix'd, and motionless : Yet stay, be not disturb'd : now I bethink me,... | |
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