 | 1811 - 596 էջ
...excessive difference vehemently affects the mind* ' Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, y The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames, Casts ptfte and dreadful ? PL 1 . 1 80.' The proximity of contraries renders each more extremelyintense,... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 428 էջ
...substantive in the midst of epithets, thus : -" Now is the pleasant time, The coot, the silent." And again, " Save what the glimmering of these livid flames, Casts pale, and dreadful." That extremely sublime character of Richard III. given by his mother, consists wholly of epithets.... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 434 էջ
...substantive in the midst of epithets, thus : -" Now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent." And again, " Save what the glimmering of these livid flames, Casts pale, and dreadful." That extremely sublime character of Richard III. given by his mother, consists wholly of epithets.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 էջ
...whether scorn, Or saliate fury, yield it from our foe. Seen thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wiH, IM The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the...waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour there; 185 And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy ;... | |
 | 1813 - 662 էջ
...sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.' Exodus. ' See'st thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ?' Par. Lost. • What tho' the field be lost ? All is not lost ; the unconquerable will, And study... | |
 | 1814 - 570 էջ
...sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice." Exodus. " ' See'st thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ?' Par. Lost. VOL. III. Ken: Siries. 46 -" ' What though the field be lost ? All is not lost ; the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 էջ
...emotions forced into union, to wit, the beauty of the description, and the horror of the object described. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The...glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? And with respect to this and many similar passages in Paradise Lost, we are sensible, that the emotions... | |
 | 1852 - 798 էջ
...occasion, " Whether scorn, Or satiate fnry, yield it from our foe." He must be up and doing. " Secst thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat...if any rest can harbour there ; And, reassembling onr afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend, Our enemy — our own loss how repair... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 էջ
...satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 1,80 BOOK i. B 2 The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the...waves ; There rest, if any rest can harbour there ; 185 And, re-assemble our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 էջ
...boundless deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. ! Sire what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off... | |
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Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful? 
