 | George Campbell - 1801 - 404 էջ
...the choice of words. concerning Satan, when he had gotten into the garden of Eden, •'«•-- ! 1 Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant *. f If for cormorant he had said bird of prey, Which would have equally suited both the meaning and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 էջ
...(query paper-money :) and next to Life Our Death, the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, grew fast by. — ****** ****** So clomb this first grand thief Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant. — PAR. LOST. IVThe allegory here is so apt, that in a catalogue of various readings obtained from... | |
 | James Jennings - 1828 - 526 էջ
...were, too, FRIGATE-PELICANS soaring on high ; Those who sometimes proceed man himself to defy ; " Hence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant." MILTON. The Graculus, or SHAG, called erroneously sometimes Crane, is black above, beneath brown; two... | |
 | Edward Stanley (bishop of Norwich) - 1835 - 324 էջ
...this ill-favoured bird, when he first entered Paradise, devising the ruin of our first parents : — Up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a Cormorant — devising death To them that lived. THE CORMOKANT. The poet could not, indeed, easily have selected... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 էջ
...give one in nouns from Milton, who says concerning Satan, when he had gotten into the garden of Eden, Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant4. If for cormorant he had said bird of prey, which would have equally suited both the meaning... | |
 | Charles Morley - 1841 - 120 էջ
...provide clothing for you?" How spiritless is the same sentiment rendered by these small variations ! " Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant. MILTON. If for cormorant he had said, bird of prey, which would have equally suited' both the meaning... | |
 | Joseph Train - 1845 - 474 էջ
...great dislike, and into which we are informed by Milton, the devil transformed himself: — " Hence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant." The birds that build their nests and frequent the Calf, are thus described by a tourist who visited... | |
 | George Campbell - 1846 - 464 էջ
...one in nouns from Milton, who says concerning Satan, when he had gotten into the garden of Eden, " Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant."t If for cormorant he had said bird of prey, which would have equally suited both the meaning... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 352 էջ
...vegetable gold (query paper money:) and next to Life Our Death, the tree of knowledge, grew fast by. — So clomb this first grand thief Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant. PAH. LOST. iv. The allegory here is so apt, that in a catalogue of various readings obtained from collating... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 էջ
...and next to Life Our Deaih, the Tree of Knowledge, grew fast by.— So clomb this first grand Ihief Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant.—Par. f^ost, IV. The allegory here is MI apt, that in a catalogue of various ffidinga obtained... | |
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So clomb this first grand thief Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life Sat like a cormorant. 
