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" Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th "
The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland - Page 483
by Abraham Mills - 1858
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...impious war in Heay'n, and battle proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong naming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion,...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arm*. Nine times the space that measures day and night 59 To mortal men, he with...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...above himself. Thus where he mentions Satan in the beginning of hisPoem, 1.44, &c. — — — Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th* ethereal...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. We have likewise several noble hints of it in the infernal conference, i. 128, &c. O Prince IO Chief...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...hottomless perdition, there to dwell • . In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures...and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'df rolling in the fiery gulf,Confounded though immortal i hut his doom Reserv'd him to more...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...the two, less dang'rous is th' offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Pope. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal...dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst de^ th' Omnipotent to arms. Milton. In these examples, we see the particle the may either form a distinct...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...battle proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, 45 With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night 5o To mortal men, he with...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...if possible, above himself. Thus, where he mentions Satan in the beginning of his poem : ' Him the almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal...perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal I'm-, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to ajms. VOL. XI. M We have likewise jeveral noble hints of it...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...possible, above himself. Thus where he mentions satari in the beginning of his poem : • Him the. Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal...perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal tire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. We have likewise several noble hints of it in- the infernal...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ...

Hugh Murray - 1805 - 188 pages
...shook. 167 With this compare the following : ' Him the Almighty power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down...penal fire, Who durst defy th- Omnipotent to arms! It was probably from a secret perception of this, that Milton was led to prefer blank verse; not merely,...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ...

Hugh Murray - 1805 - 198 pages
...J66 167 With this compare the following: - Him the Almighty power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down...penal fire. Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms ! It was -probably from a secret perception of this, that Milton was led to prefer blank verse ; not...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ...

Hugh Murray - 1805 - 206 pages
...1G7 With this compare the following : • i. Him the Almight? power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down...there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, AVho durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms! It was probably from a seeret pereeption of thisi that Milton...
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