 | John (st.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...thunderbolts and hail Of iron globes ; and on the other side with the seated hills, which they plucked With all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands, and hurled them down to whelm the rebel host and all their warlike inventions, as Milton has it ? If... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 482 pages
...and cast down ; but they soon rallied : " From their foundations, loos'ning to and fro, They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by their shaggy tops Uplifted bore them in their hands." The rebels seized the hills also : " So hills... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1886 - 334 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations loosening to and fro They plucked 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 dread they saw The... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 642 pages
...the lightuing 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, woods, and by the shaggy tops Up lifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming... | |
 | Karl Philipp Moritz - England - 1886 - 218 pages
...From their foundation loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Bocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands ." Book VI., 1. 642. I seemed to fancy to myself that I actually saw an angel there standing and plucking... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 548 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they fle» From their foundations loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills, with all their load. Rocks, waters, woods, and by their shaggy top« Uplifting bore them in their hands ; amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 pages
...applies the epithet to hills :— " Nor on the shaggy top o/Mona high." — Lycidas, 54. " They plucked the seated hills with all their load— Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops." — Par. Lost, vi. 645. 16. OldCanway's. In Mitford's " Aldine " Edition it is misprinted " cold Conway's,"... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1891 - 200 pages
...the epithet to hills : — "Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high." — Lycidas, 54. ' ' They plucked the seated hills with all their load — Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops. " — Par. Lost, vi. 645. 12. wound his long array. Made his long array of soldiers wind ; of. wind... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...them the following great image : — 1 From their foundations, loosening to and fro, 20 They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. We have the full majesty of Homer in this short description, improved by the imagination of Claudian... | |
 | John Milton - English Literature - 1892 - 654 pages
...the lightning-glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked 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 dread they saw The bottom... | |
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They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains... 
