 They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 41810Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n!" 330 They heard, and were abashM, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On...well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 Yet to their general's voice they soon obey VI Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Ami-um's... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake ! arise ! or be for ever fallen !" They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men wont to watch On...they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, nor the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their General's voice they soon obey'd ; Innumerable. As when... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...of the misery of their state, while they are gathering round their leader, he says, Nor did they n6t perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. The words not in this passage must necessarily have the emphasis with the rising inflection, as this... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem ; as towards the beginning of it : Kar did they net NEXT to the influence of heaven, I am to thank you that I see the returnin Y« t to their general'! voice they soon obey*d Wbo shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen ! They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men wont to watch On...they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, nor the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their General's voice they soon obey'd ; Iunumerable. As when... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 354 pages
...Graecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem; as towards the beginning of it : Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which...feel. Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd — Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss, And through the palpable... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...Graecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem ; as, towards the beginning of it : Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which...the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voiee they soon obey'd. — i. 333. — Who shall tempt, with wandering feet, The dark, unbottom'd,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...angels as sensible of the misery of their state, while they are gathering round their leader, he says, Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. The words not in this passage must necessarily have the emphasis with the rising inflexion, as this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen ! They heard, and were abash'd; and up they \V. .-.'.! round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...bottom of this gulf. Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n. 330 They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On...well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd... | |
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