| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...scorn, Or satiate fury yield it from oar foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 Tlie seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Hee.t thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, 180 The scat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest,... | |
| John Blair Linn - Genius - 1802 - 196 pages
...deep. Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from the foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of Desolation,...of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid Same* Casts pale and dreadful ? thither let us tend From ofT the tossing of these fiery waves; iflre... | |
| 1874 - 596 pages
...which perplexes speculation, and we may say with the fallen cherub in Milton, — ' See'st thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest,... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...• t us not clip tlr occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of Desolation,...light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pnle and dreadful ? Tliilber let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves, There rest,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Let us not slip the occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury, yield it from our foe. Seest thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation,...light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames //3•• 2! Casts pale and dreadful ? thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves;... | |
| Joseph Harpur - Classical poetry - 1810 - 314 pages
...the other10G • As when a thick darkness co-exists with light faint and glimmering: Secst thou yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmring of these livid Jlamet Casts pale and dreadful? PL 1. 180. If they act in succession, such... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 596 pages
...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,... | |
| 1813 - 662 pages
...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 seat of desolation,...light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ?' Par. Lost. • What tho' the field be lost ? All is not lost ; the unconquerable... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...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 glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest,... | |
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