 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...winter In storm perpetual, could not move the gods To look that way thou wert. Winter's Tale, ill. 3 As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks...mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though hare Stands on the hlasted heath. PL, i. 615. for God had thrown That mountain as his garden... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 pages
...demeuré en sûreté assis « sur son trône, maintenu par une ancienne réputation, par le conHat 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 198 pages
...his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath seath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak : whereat their doubled ranks... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1858 - 638 pages
...upon the borders of the black lava, with trunks and branches all leafless, barkless, and blasted. -" As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed tops their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.' Looking at the pictorial outlines... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...his fault amerced4 Of heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful6 how they stood, Their glory withered : as when heaven's...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 Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...his fault amerced 610 Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ;] yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered : | as) when Heaven's...mountain pines, | With singed top their stately growth, though bare, 615 Stands on the blasted heath. | He now prepared To speak ; | whereat their doubled... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...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...forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stalely growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak; whereat their doubled... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...from eternal splendours flnng For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd. Aa when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or...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, James Montgomery - 1861 - 578 pages
...flung 610 For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's lire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top, their stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak : whereat their double. 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... 
