 | 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
...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, the infernal excite more interest than the celestial personages, because their... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 էջ
...wing, and half inclose 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 He now prepar'd The catalogue of evil spirits has abundance of learning in it, and a very agreeable... | |
 | Erinaceus (pseud.) - 1809 - 78 էջ
...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
...his furvey of thofe innumerable Spirits whom he had involved in the fame guilt and ruin with himfelf. The catalogue of evil Spirits has abundance of learning in it, and ma very agreeable turn of poetry, which rifes in a great meafure from its defcribing the places where... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 էջ
...wing, and half enclose him mund 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 power*... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 էջ
...For hi* revolt .. Mark the effect : i. He now prepar'd To speak •-• •• Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Book I. v. 604, &c. Nor has Virgil suffered the unnatural and abandoned Mezentius, equally the contemner... | |
 | 1812 - 670 էջ
...poets both ancient and modern, as in Virgil and Milton ; Ter conata loqui, &c. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth, Sec. but we will venture to assert, that it was never painted in a manner half so lively, as by the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 էջ
...wing-, and 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 ; at last Words interwQre with sighs, found out their way. Par. Lost. I. 604 ceived, which Christ the... | |
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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... 
