 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
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 pages
...stand* Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeless sheaves Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood Like TenerifFe...reached the sky, and on his crest Sat Horror plumed ; nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear and shield : Which Gabriel spying, thus bespake the... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...271. BooK IV'.] PARADISE LOST. 141 Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff1 or Atlas,1 unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed ;8 nor wanted in his grasp What seemed both spear aud shield. Now dreadful deeds 990 Might have ensued... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...stands, Lest on the threshing floors his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. On the -other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...Prove chaff. On tV other side Satan alarmed, 985 Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved : His stature reached the sky, and on his crest act of doing what he is to do under certain conditions. It is thought to be more lively than the regular... | |
 | Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, Henry William Tytler, John Hookham Frere - Greek poetry - 1856 - 532 pages
...caput inter nubila condit. Dodd compares also Milton, PL iv. 985, " On the other side Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might dilated stood, Like Teneriffe...reached the sky ; and on his crest Sat horror plumed." But above all, the prophet Isaiah, Ix. 1, " Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." 2... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe,...reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed." Here, it is obvious, verse has left prose caught in the thicket. The main circumstance could have been... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. On the other side, Satan alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriffe,...reached the sky, and on h'is crest Sat horror plumed." Here, it is obvious, verse has left prose caught in the thicket. The main circumstance could have been... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...&c. — On the other side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Tenariffe, or Atlas, unremoved. His stature reached the sky, and on his crest Sat horror plumed. — I must here take notice, that Milton is everywhere full of hints, and sometimes literal translations,... | |
 | Hesiod - 1856 - 546 pages
...iv. 985, " On the other side Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might dilated stood, Like Tenerifie or Atlas unremoved : His stature reached the sky ; and on his crest Sat horror plumed." But above all, the prophet Isaiah, 1?. 1, " Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." 2... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...side, Satan, alarmed, Collecting all his might, dilated stood, Like Teneriff or Atlas, unremoved :6 His stature reached the sky,' and on his crest Sat horror plumed ; nor wanted8 in his grasp 1 Award, decree. 2 Cf. Rev. xx. 3. 3 ie who darest to set limits to my movements.... | |
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