 On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield.  A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 203by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...dilated stood, " Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved ; t' Introduction to the Hist. of Britain, 108. ' " His stature reached the sky, and on his crest " Sat horror plumed ;" " Horrendumque intonat armis, " Quantus Athos, aut quantus Eryx, aut ipse coruscis " Cumfremit ilidbus... | |
 | Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
...branches, and the " meteor passing behind." " This," says Mr Laing, " is Milton's -" Satan alarmed, " Collecting all his might, dilated stood, " Like Teneriffe,...reached the sky, and on his crest " Sat horror plumed." — In order to refute the charge of plagiarism, in these instances, nothing further seems requisite,... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - National characteristics, American - 1810 - 328 pages
...who " Collecting- all his might, dilated stood, " Like Teneriff or Atlas ; of whom it is said that " His stature reached the sky, and on his crest " Sat horror plumed;" of the magnitude of such a one, I say, mortals may talk with the utmost propriety. Piomingo. With the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...Prove chaff". On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved: His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed; nor wanted in his, grasp What seemed both spear and shield: now dreadful deeds Might have ensued, nor... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Tenerirfor Atlas, unremoved: His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield: now dreadful deeds Might have ensued, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, 985 Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd hoth spear and shield. Now dreadful deeds 990 Might have ensued,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horrour plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd both spear and shield. Now dreadful deeds Might... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - Phrenology - 1839 - 346 pages
...great admiral, were but a wand He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marl. * * * * Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe...reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed. 5. WEIGHT. "And earth, self-balanced, on her centre hung." — Miltun, The perception of weight, density,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - Slavery - 1840 - 208 pages
...of soul were not on the part of the " angelic squadron" alone : — On t' other side, Satan alarm'd Collecting all his might, dilated stood Like Teneriffe,...stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plum' d; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd both spear and shield. — The struggle that impends is... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarm'd, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe, or Atlas, unremoved: His stature reach'd the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed; nor wanted in his grasp What seem'd both spear... | |
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