 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pàgines
...lightning's glimpse, they ran, they flew ; "From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, Tliej pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, R.ocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. MILTON! LESSON XVIII. ANTITHESES. TB-UE ease in writing comes from art, not ckance ; As those move... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pàgines
...lightning's glimpse, they ran, they flew ; From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods ; and, by the shaggy tops Uplifted, bore them in their hands. faradise Lost. . V. Examples of INTERROGATION, or Questioning-.... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 pàgines
...think, he affects the imagination more readily. From their foundations loosening to and fro They plucked the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods ; and by their shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. • • 1 As another instance of bold coneeption,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pàgines
...circumstances but what are properly sublime : From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. Whereas Claudian, in a fragment upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this idea of their... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 266 pàgines
...but what are truly sublime. From their foundations loos•ning to and fro, They pluck•rl the grated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods; and...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. This idea of the giants throwing the mountains, which is in itself so grand, Claudian renders burlesque... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pàgines
...out of them the following great image : ' From their foundations loos,ning to and fro, They pluck,d the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands., We have the full majesty of Homer in this short description, improved by the imagination of Claudian,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pàgines
...' From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They plnck'd the seated hills, with all their toad, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands.' We have the full majesty of Homer in this short description, improved by the imagination of Claudian,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pàgines
...circumstances, but what are properly Sublime : From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands.—— Whereas Claudian, in a fragment upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this idea of their... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pàgines
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew ; From their foundations loosening to and fro They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops 645 Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seiz'd the rebel host, When coming... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pàgines
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands: Amaze, Be sure, and terror, seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom... | |
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They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains... 
