 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : —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... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 230 pages
...stabulis ut clandestinus oberrans Expleat ingluviem tristis lupus, indice nullo? 120 TRANSLATIONS. 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,... | |
 | Ireland - 1862 - 832 pages
...effect on the pride of the South. Secession and war were laid at the root of the tree of slavery. " But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." « An army of three hundred thousand men has drained the South of its most skilled superintendents... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 982 pages
...contagion .spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : — 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;... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." It was in this house, on the approach of the troops of Prince Rupert to the capital,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye Valleys low 1 where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the... | |
 | Edward Robinson - Great Britain - 1864 - 228 pages
...soon afterwards brought to the scaffold, they deemed the man who had before said, that huge two handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more, was both a prophet and a poet, and he acquired by it a wonderful prestige. But if the lawyers were... | |
 | Lancaster, County of, Edward Robinson - Great Britain - 1864 - 226 pages
...afterwards brought to the scaffold, they deemed the man who had before said, that huge two handed cugine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more, was both a prophet and a poet, and he acquired by it a wonderful prestige. But if the lawyers were... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 pages
...vulgus. Quid dicam, stabulis ut clandestinus oberrans Expleat ingluviem tristis lupus, indice nullo? 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. 135 Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On... | |
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