 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...winter In storm perpetual, could not more the gods To look that way thou wert. Winier't Talt, 1IL S. - As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. PL, i. 615. - for God had thrown That mountain as his garden... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory witner'd : as when Hcav'n's fire Hath scath'd sh though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...his revolt : yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat, their doubled ranks... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 780 pages
...from the contact with the sea-water spray ; indeed the trees appeared, — " As when heaven's fire Has scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath ;" and the rain-water in the cistern and vats, which was to... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd: as when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, 3* Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To s;rcan, whereat their doubled ranks... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heav'n's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top...stately growth tho' bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd: as when Heav'ns fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd: as when Heav'ns fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | Scotland - 1852 - 840 pages
...from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks,...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
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Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately... 
