 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...expressive uncertainty of strokes and colouring, he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors : — The other shape, If shape it might be called that...that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...flow'd*. He has not represented his image terrible, but loathsome and nauseous. On Of Death he says, black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart. • But Milton's judiciousness in selecting such circurflstances as tend to raise a just and natural... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...Distinguishable in number, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called 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. But if Death has in the main been abused, and... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - Death - 1803 - 68 pages
...of Terrors, is a • just appropriation of our great bard's description of the same object : . • - 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. vii In the employment of Sin, pointing and envenoming... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...from the ashes of the French Revolution, shadowy, unde. inablf, and terrific. " • The other, shaj-e, If shape it might be called, that shape had none,...in member, joint, or limb : Or substance might be calkd, that shadow seemed Ï For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies,... | |
 | English literature - 1806 - 576 pages
...the French Revolution, »hadowy, uudeunable, and terrific. " TTje other shape, i it might lie culled, that shape had none, Distinguishable in member, joint,...or limb : Or substance might be called, that shadow к-crned : • For each seemed cither: black it stood as night. Fierce as ten furies, terrible a»... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...expressive uncertainty of strokes and colouring, he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape (it might be called that...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 ;... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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 a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 448 pages
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called, which shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a deadly dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. " The union of deformity... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Martyrs - 1810 - 392 pages
...Distingùlshable in member , joint , or limb , Or substance might be rail 'd thaï shadow seem'd , For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadfuldart; what seem'd his head , The likunrss of a kingly crown had on. Par. Lost. II, 666. XIIIe.... | |
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The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none 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... 
