 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pàgines
...not sad she him received' (xn 609). Simile Milton's small similes are often weak. Of Death he says, black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. Bentley, editing PL in 1732, objected that 'to make one person, Death, to... | |
 | 1886 - 982 pàgines
...Shakespeare's ' Corioianus.' He compares ' le peuple-roi ' and its rule with Milton's hell-monsters : — Black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In short,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pàgines
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night. Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell." II. 666. His behaviour as the leader of the rebel hosts — the might with which he wielded his sword,... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pàgines
...Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (II, 666-673)... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pàgines
...in member, joynt, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each sccm'd cither; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (II, 666-673)... | |
 | Taylor Corse - 1991 - 164 pàgines
...portrait of Sin and Death. The reader may recall how Milton describes Satan's first encounter with Death: black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart. (PL 2.670-72) Dryden's Alecto also "shakes" and throws "a pois'nous Dart";... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 pàgines
...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3)... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 pàgines
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook like a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (PL 2.648-60,... | |
 | Michael A. Morrison - 1999 - 416 pàgines
...administration."76 The ascendancy of republican freedom was, they believed, secure in a rising American empire. — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now... | |
 | David Bromwich - 2001 - 286 pàgines
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Burke relates... | |
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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And... 
