| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Their state affairs. So thick the aery crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves,... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...Their state affairs. So thick the airy crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Mow less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...blind bard may be credited, his infernal spirits adopted. " Behold a wonder! they but now who scem'ii In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Thronged numberless." . This poem is divided into two pans. The first commences with... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...citadel, New rubb'd with halm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the a:ry crowd 77; Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal given,...Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like ihat pygmean race 7 Si] Beyond the Indian mount, or faery elves,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the aery croud Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given,...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elvesj... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the aery croud Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given , Behold a wonder ! They but now wno seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the airy crowj 775 Swann'd and wire straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! They but now who stemM In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...confer Their state affairs. So thick the airy crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! They but now who seem'd In bigness...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1819 - 388 pages
...place among the great assembly of the illustrious dead, ''Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless." Even the raptures of Voltaire can no longer persuade men that either... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 394 pages
...place among the great assembly of the illustrious dead, " Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless."—— Even the raptures of Voltaire can no longer persuade men that... | |
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