 | Reverdy Johnson - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1863 - 764 pages
...wholly unworthy of her trust and confidence." I never before understood the lines of Milton: — " The angel ended, but in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thonght him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear." He sleeps well by the sea he loved so well.... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. — id. The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he...Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. —BOOK VIII. So spake our sire, and by his countenance seem'd Entering on studious thoughts abstruse... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...discourse with the angel thereupon ; who, after _ admonitions repeated, departs. The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear ; Then, as new-waked, thus gratefully replied : " What thanks sufficient, or what recompense... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1865 - 314 pages
...has described Adam, wrapt, entranced with the last accents that fell from the lips of Raphael : — "The angel ended ; but in Adam's ear So charming left...awhile Thought him still speaking — still stood fixed to hear." Though it was as a graceful and eloquent orator that Mr. Everett was most widely known... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor - Painters - 1865 - 676 pages
...taking his hand, held it while he 'addressed him in the words of Milton, — " The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he...Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear." This I heard from Mr. Rogers, who said, " Nobody but Burke could have done such a thing without its... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 348 pages
...Michael Angelo." As Sir Joshua left the chair, Burke went up to him and said, The angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fii'd to hear. The chair has been disused for the last few years, and is now preserved at the Academy... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). City Council - 1865 - 334 pages
...last accents that fell from the lips of Raphael : — "The angel ended ; but in Adam's ear So chaiming left his voice that he awhile Thought him still speaking — still stood fixed to hear." Though it was as a graceful and eloquent orator that Mr. Everett was most widely known... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Legislators - 1865 - 116 pages
...accents that fell from the lips of Raphael : — " The angel ended ; but in Adam's ear So chaiming left his voice that he awhile Thought him still speaking — still stood fixed to hear." Though it was as a graceful and eloquent orator that Mr. Everett was most widely known... | |
 | 1866 - 410 pages
...discourse with the angel thereupon ; who, after admonitions repeated, departs. THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood flx'd to hear : Then, as new wak'd, thus gratefully replied. What thanks sufficient, or what recompence... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...yet grace did pass, Which thus through pearls and rubies broken was. DRUMMOND. THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he...Thought Him still speaking,* still stood fix'd to hear ; Then, as new- waked, thus gratefully replied. Paradise Lost, Book Vill. WORDS. WORDS are wise men's... | |
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THE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear... 
