 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...intricate seem straight, To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night...Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the aniazed night-wanderer from his way 640 To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool; ' •... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...intricate seem straight, To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Bright'ns his Crest, as when a wand'ring Fire Compact of unctuous vapour, which the Night Condenses, and the cold invirons round, 260 Kindl'd through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...wandring Fire Compaft ofunftuous vapor, which the Night Condenses, and the coldinvirons round, Kindl'd through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say,...Hovering and blazing with delusive Light, Misleads th' amaz'dNight'wandererjrom his way To Boggs and Mires, & oft through Pond or Poole, There swallow'd up... | |
 | John Keats - 1926 - 730 pages
...Condenses, and the cold invirous round, Kindl'd through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say,|some evil Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive...Light, Misleads t h' amaz'd Night-wanderer from his way 'I'n Boggs and Mires, and oft through Pond or Poole, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour farr.... | |
 | Richard Green Moulton - Letterkunde - 1915 - 550 pages
...is leading Eve to the fatal tree — Hope elevates, and joy Bright 'ns his crest, as when a wandring fire Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindl 'd through agitation to a flame, (Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends) Hovering and... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...intricate seem straight, To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold invirons round, Kindled through agitation to a flame (Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends),... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - Poetry - 1970 - 434 pages
...vapor, which the Night / Condenses, and the cold invirons round, / Kindl'd ... to a Flame, / Which . . . some evil Spirit attends / Hovering and blazing with.../ Misleads th' amaz'd Night-wanderer from his way / To Boggs and Mires, and oft through Pond or Poole, / There swallow'd up and lost, from succour farr.'... | |
 | 442 pages
...laughing at their harm ?" Milton alludes to the deceptive gleam in the following lines — " A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night...light, Misleads th' amaz'd night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond and pool." 1 1 Anatomy of Melancholic. * Act iii. sc. r. He... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...wandring Fire, Compact of unctuous vapor, which the Night Condenses, and the cold invirons round, Kindl'd through agitation to a Flame, Which oft, they say,...Light, Misleads th' amaz'd Night-wanderer from his way To Boggs and Mires, and oft through Pond or Poole, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour farr.... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...intricate seem straight, To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest; as when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night...Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads th' amazed night-wanderer from his way 640 To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallowed... | |
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Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs... 
