 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...for his fault amerced3 Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful4 how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest-oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare* Stands on the blasted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 Seiten
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. Ho was baffled, not confounded. He stood like a tower ; or " - As when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines." He is still surrounded with hosts of rebel angels, armed warriors, who own him as their sovereign leader,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 Seiten
...strongest will left to resist or to endure. He was baffled, not confounded. He stood like a tower ; or • As when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines." He is still surrounded with hosts of rebel angels, armed warriors, who own him as their sovereign leader,... | |
 | Hosea Beckley - 1846 - 414 Seiten
...change, may bring home the question, who makeih thee to differ 1 " As when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath." The number of patients in this asylum is about two hundred ; and the recoveries... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 Seiten
...winter In storm perpetual, could not more the gods To look that way thou wert. Winier't Talt, 1IL S. - As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. PL, i. 615. - for God had thrown That mountain as his garden mould, high raised... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory witner'd : as when Hcav'n's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing,... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 Seiten
...his revolt : yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat, their doubled ranks they bend, From wing... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - 1848 - 780 Seiten
...from the contact with the sea-water spray ; indeed the trees appeared, — " As when heaven's fire Has scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath ;" and the rain-water in the cistern and vats, which was to be used for domestic... | |
 | 1856 - 666 Seiten
...from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing,... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 296 Seiten
...For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd: as when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, 3* Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To s;rcan, whereat their doubled ranks they bend... | |
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Millions of spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately... 
