 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pàgines
...this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair." Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pàgines
...currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. SHAKSPEKE. EXTRACTS FROM PARADISE LOST. FALLEN ANGELS. THUS Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood;... | |
 | 1849 - 608 pàgines
...surface ; and when dead and swollen — ' Prone on the flood, extended long and large,' He would ' Lie floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, , or earth-born, that warr'd on Jove.' Such a spectacle, demonstrative of the species if it existed,... | |
 | 1827 - 516 pàgines
...scrutiny of the reason, fill the imagination of the reader with a form which can hardly be effaced. Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate With head...extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, * * * Par. Lost, bi lines 192-196. Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature;... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...supremely good, fair, and great. That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood,1 extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareos, or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus2 held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan,3... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 pàgines
...scrutiny of the reason, fill the imagination of the reader with a form which can hardly be effaced. "Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood."... | |
 | Virgil - 1845 - 140 pàgines
...(I loathe to tell) With reared breast lift up above the seas. (»•) V. 206 — Pectora quorum Sfc. Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood,... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1880 - 174 pàgines
...Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended...as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Ti tun. i an, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareus, or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 pàgines
...Satan, talking to bis neareut mate With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, * * * Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames, Driven... | |
 | 1847 - 110 pàgines
...act of catching a pterodactyle. " With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended...name of monstrous size, Titanian, or earth-born, that warred on Jove. Briarchus, or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea beast Leviathan,... | |
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Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... 
