 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
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 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...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Te valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1873 - 882 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 smite no more. Beturn, Alpheus, the dread voice is post, That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian muse, And call... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1924 - 542 pages
...Rot inwardly, and foul corruption spread; and finally pronounce the sinister and enigmatic menace : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. A few months after Lycidas (1637) Milton was himself in Italy, making no secret of his Protestantism... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 416 pages
...just on earth as they are in heaven, against the perversion of his earthly Kingdom that two handed engine at the door / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. The vindication of God is apocalyptic, for the death of King had raised the question of the perversion... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 1142 pages
...not impaired by dissent, even if dissent be pushed to Antinomianism. You will recall Milton's lines : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. On hard conditions may he buy his peace; Nor let him then enjoy supreme command, But fall untimely... | |
 | American essays - 1895 - 954 pages
...which had passed before the eyes of the great Puritan poet when he uttered the stern threat, — " That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." PALACE GATE Horse. W. 1S74. MT DEAR SIB. — Thank you for the list, which contains what will he useful... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...contagion spread: Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. [122—31] I take my stand with those who interpret the famous “engine” as an allusion to the “sharp... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 30 But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd 31 Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...that was meted out in the revolution with the abolition of the bishops and the ejection of clergy: 'But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' (lines 130-1) It is not an isolated digression in its preoccupations. The political note is there from... | |
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