 | 1864 - 922 pagini
...description of Satan's entrance : " So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold. Thence up be flew, and on the tree of life, — The middle tree, and highest there that grew, — Sat like a cormorant." — Book IV. Afterwards the guardian angels, Ithuriel and Zephon, are represented hastening " To the... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pagini
...grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew; and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, l»5 Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived;... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pagini
...revenge. Book iv. Line 122. Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Arabic the blest Boot iv. Line 162. And on the Tree of Life The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. Book iv. Line 194. A heaven on earth. Book iv. Line 208. Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pagini
...grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 105 Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pagini
...grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew; and on the Tree of Life, (The middle tree and highest there that grew,) 105 Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived;... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1870 - 718 pagini
...and hawks were, for chasing the fleet inhabitants of the air. The custom is still in full practice in China. This bird, although of the aquatic kind,...often seen, like the pelican, perched upon trees. A bird of this species, kept by Colonel Montague, was extremely docile, of a grateful disposition,... | |
 | Andrew Leith Adams - 1870 - 360 pagini
...cormorants perched on lofty trees remind one of Satan in Milton's Paradiee Loot, iv. 194, 195, 196 :— "On the Tree of Life (The middle tree, and highest there that grew) Sat like a cormorant." numbers. On proceeding inland, and passing across some great level, covered with splendid crops of... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pagini
...grand Thief into God's fold: So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of Life The middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who liv'd... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1886 - 478 pagini
...bird, before he did that of the serpent, and entering the Garden of Eden : — " Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant." As Pennant puts it : — " To survey undelighted the beauties of Paradise : and sit devising death... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pagini
...grand thief into God's fokl ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue... | |
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Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant... 
