 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...torn The steadfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides 930 Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares Fluttering his pennons... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...torn The stedfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides 930 Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares Flutt'ring his pennons... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...torn The stedfast earih. At last his sail-hroad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending, rides Audacious ; hut that scat soon failing, meets A vast vacuityi all unawares, Flutt'ring his i'ennons vain, plumh... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...torn The steadfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides 930 Audacious ; but that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity : all unawares Fluttering his pennons... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1820 - 540 pages
...however, they were no longer discernible by the naked eye. • in the surging smoke Uplifted spurn the ground ; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair ascending, ride Audacious. The balloon soared to an elevation of more than 3000 feet, and traversed, by a circuitous... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - Holy Spirit - 1801 - 392 pages
...God : And so, their sail-broad vans They spread for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurn the ground; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending ride Audacious ; but that seat soon jailing, meet A vast VACUITY. MILTON. But, for people of this order,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...that Gaul 3*, the son *9 Two dark clouds that are the chariots of ghosts.] MILTON, Par. Lost, ii. 729. Thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair ascending, rides Audacious. J0 Gaul, the son of Morni, was the chief of a tribe, that disputed long the pre-eminence with Fingal... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...torn The stedfast Earth. At last hit sail-broad vans fie spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious ; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity: all unawares [drops Fluttering his pennons vain,... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...steadfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spread* for flight, and in Ihe surging smoke tpliltcd spurns the ground; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious ; but that scat soon failing, meets Avast vacuity : all unawares fluttering his pennons vain, plump... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...torn The stedfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, Ascending rides 930 Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets A vast vacuity: all unawares, Fluttering his pennons... | |
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At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground ; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious... 
