 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove...  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Էջ 239Alexander Chalmers - 1808Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 էջ
...growth tho' bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubl'd ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose...of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. At last 620 Words interwove with sighs found out their way. O Myriads of immortal Sp'rits, O Pow'rs... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 էջ
...stately growth though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half...spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last 6 jo Words interwove with sighs, found out their way. O MYRIADS of immortal Spi'rits, O Powers... | |
 | 1803 - 412 էջ
...had involved in the same guilt and ruin with himself : ' -J He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half...assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such a§ angels weep, burst forth ' The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a... | |
 | 1803 - 372 էջ
...himself. „ He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their double ranks they bend From wing to wing, ami half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ~. The catalogue of evil... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 էջ
...He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them...spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable turn of poetry,... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1805 - 364 էջ
...fruitlesse' is a sentence that seems to have been written by a reader of Milton : ' Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.' " On this comment I have only to remark, that Milton or his works never occurred to me at the moment... | |
 | Richard Payne Knight - 1805 - 512 էջ
...now prcpar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend, From wing to wing, and half enclose him round, With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears such as angels weep burst forth. Throughout the poem,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 384 էջ
...— — • Peradise Lost, rer. 490. t Ver- 392. This form he has exactly repeated in Paradise Lost. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth *. — In Comus. — — A perpetual feast of nectar' J sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. In Paradise... | |
 | Erinaceus (pseud.) - 1809 - 78 էջ
...begin to swell, " Nor can the good receive, nor bad expel." — DHYDEN. , . 40 And thus bespeak, Sic." Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, " Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last "Words, intenvove with sighs, found out their way." — MILTON. 43 You feel, with me, #c.... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 էջ
...Henowprepar'd 615 Tofpeak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclofe him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute. Thrice he afiay'd, and thrice, in fpite of fcorn, Tears, fuch as Angels weep, burft forth : at lafl fents the... | |
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