 The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,...  An Introduction to the Study of Poetry - Pagina 102de Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 328 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagini
...expressive uncertainty of strokes and colouring, he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors : — The other shape, If shape it might be called that...that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pagini
...witches, while the lab'ring moon l'"clipses at their charms. The other shape, If shape it might be cali'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seemM, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 6;o Fierce as ten furies,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagini
...while the lab'ring moon Eclipses at their charms. The other shape, 666" If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies,... | |
 | Longinus - 1800 - 238 pagini
...flow'd*. He has not represented his image terrible, but loathsome and nauseous. On Of Death he says, black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. • But Milton's judiciousness in selecting such circurflstances as tend to raise a just and natural... | |
 | 1811 - 702 pagini
...content himself with sketching a pot of ashes? Milton treated Death with more decency and respect: • The other shape, If shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in number, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pagini
...while the lab'ring moon 665 Eclipses at their charms. The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten furies,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1801 - 372 pagini
...the object which creates the emotion, and you dissipate the illusion, you annihilate the pleasure. " What seemed its head, the likeness of a kingly crown had on." The indistinctness of the head and of the kingly crown, makes this a sublime image. Upon the same principle,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1803 - 68 pagini
...of Terrors, is a • just appropriation of our great bard's description of the same object : . • - black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart : what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. vii In the employment of Sin, pointing and envenoming... | |
 | 1856 - 634 pagini
...of the imagination ; yet surely the very essence of sublimity is to be undefined and limitless — ' "What seemed its head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on.' He is reported, we believe correctly, as saying, — 'When I 'was travelling in Italy, I made two authors... | |
 | 1806 - 550 pagini
...from the ashes of the French Revolution, shadowy, unde. inablf, and terrific. " • The other, shaj-e, If shape it might be called, that shape had none,...in member, joint, or limb : Or substance might be calkd, that shadow seemed Ï For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies,... | |
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