 In : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more *. Return, Alpheus ; the dread voice is past. That shrunk thy streams"; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 576by John Milton - 1842 - 767 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...contagion spread ; " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw " Daily devours a pace ; and nothing said, " But that two-handed engine at the door, " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of MILTON are certainly severe, but yet not ® tr gy> f° ra circuit of sixty miles round... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...wolf with privy paw lily devours apace ; and nothing said, it that two-handed engin at the door, inds ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past lat shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, id call the vales, and bid them hither cast leir bells,... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace : and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of Milton are certainly severe, but not more so than the occasion deserves. If they were... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks;... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...wolf with privy paw TJmjIv devours apace, and nothing sed.: But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid thrni hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where tlie mild whispers... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
....Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: Cut that two handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more, 1 ' Return, Alphcus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 786 pages
...it, in one instance, and by a inure amendment of one act of parliament : ——— and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. VOL. xvi. f — dom amongst all classes of their countrymen. A. GLEANINGS ; OH, SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...smite no more." Return, Alpheus ! the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams: return, Sicilian Muse ! And call the vales, and bid them hither cast... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready...smite no more." Return, Alpheus ! the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams: return, Sicilian Muse! And call the vales, and bid them hither cast... | |
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