 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pàgines
...perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal : but... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1866 - 410 pàgines
...rather (for they scarce took note of day or night in the excitement of that long struggle) we might say, Nine times the space That measures day and night to mortal men, they kept up the contest. There is something grand though sad in the spectacle of this noble ship thus... | |
 | John Kitto - 1866 - 534 pàgines
...perdition, — there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished."' Such was the difference produced by three centuries and a... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pàgines
...tiro fact to be introduced. Circumlocution may be employed with poetic effect, as in Milton : — " Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished rolling in the fiery gulf." There is elegance in Cowley's periphrasis... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pàgines
...perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, AVho durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal. But... | |
 | 1869 - 802 pàgines
...honesty ? Do not you believe that men are tilling as far from patriotism, as he fell from virtue, who, " Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men," was hurled, " With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition " 1 And is there to be... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pàgines
...of the word in this passage seems peculiar to himself. From PARADISE LOST. (Book I. 50.) 95. HELL. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal. But... | |
 | Erasmus Manford - 1870 - 448 pàgines
...perdition ; thereto dwell In adamantine chains and penal fires Who durst defy Omnipotence to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf." If the gentleman thinks that is... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1871 - 144 pàgines
...the following Complex sentences iu clauses, and describe the nature and use of each clause : — a. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf. b. The Englishman who without reverence... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pàgines
...perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal : but... | |
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Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That... 
