 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 էջ
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. He scarce had finished, when such murmur... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 էջ
...the peerage of Pandemonium stood mute in expectation of Satan's voice, — " Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." It is an observation of Coleridge's that it is very remarkable that in no part of his writings does... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 էջ
...wing, and half inclose him round With ail his peers ; attention hdd them mute. Thrice he assay'd, aud thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way. " O myriads of immortal spirits ! O powers... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 էջ
...wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth at last. Words interwove with sighs found out their way O myriads of immortal spirits! O powers Matchless,... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 էջ
...condition. Frin. sentence, co-ord. to 1st clause. fication of them. EXAMPLE 12. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. — Milton. Analysis. 1 . Thrice he assay'd, 2. And thrice in spite of scorn tears burst forth, 3.... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 էջ
...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers ; attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth ; at last 020 Words interwove with sighs found out their way. " 0 myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers... | |
 | Joseph William Morris - 1862 - 134 էջ
...wing, and half inclose him round, With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ; at last, Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way." An angel, though a fallen one ! The higher... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 էջ
...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 with sighs, found out their way O myriads of immortal spirits ! O powers... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1863 - 520 էջ
...wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them inuto. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.' " On reaching this point father burst into tears himself, and the reading ended. " He had always, perhaps... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 էջ
...that his tears forbad the rest. HERRICE'S Hesperides. — Leander, No. 180. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. MILTON. — Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 810. So looks the lily after a shower, while drops of rain... | |
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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 assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth... 
