Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey Of racking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains; There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved, Ages... A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 280edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...should, spout her catavaits of fire, Impendent horrors, threat'ning hideous fall One 4ay upon our heads; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd 180 • Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds, and for ever... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...should spout her cataracts of fire, Impendent horrors, threat'ning hideous fall One day upon our heads ; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurl'd 1 80 Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...should spout her cararacts of fire, Impendent horrors, threat'ning hideous fall One dav upon our heads ; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest shall he hurl'd Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport anil play Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunkUnder... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...should spout her cataracts of fire, Impendent horrors, threat'ning hideous fall One day upon our heads ; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd 180 Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds, arid for ever sunk... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...authority of another poet, before whose splendid orb his little ray is swallowed up in darkness. , — • for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean wrapt in chains-, There to converse with everlasting groans, Unrcspjted, unpitied, unrcprieved, Ages of hopeless end. Milton,... | |
| Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 558 pages
...chase was sport to me like the battle of " shields ;" is derived from Milton's imitation of Virgil : " While we, perhaps, " Designing, or exhorting glorious...Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and prey " Of wracking whirlwinds." PAR. LoST, I. " Ilium expirantem transfixo pectore flammas " Turbine corripuit,... | |
| James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...^Jo&l her cataracts of Jire ', . . Impendent horrors, threat'ning hideous fall One day upon our heads, while -we, perhaps, Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a. fiery, tempest, shall be hurl'd, Each on his rock transjix'd, the sport and prey Of -wrecking whirlwinds, or for evef sunk Under... | |
| Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 556 pages
...chase was sport to me like the battle of " shields ;" is derived from Milton's imitation of Virgil : " While we, perhaps, " Designing, or exhorting glorious war, " Caught in a fiery tempe.'t, shall be hurled, " Each on his rock transfixed, the sport and/'ry " Of wracking whirl-winds"... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...MACPHERSOW. 11 Amidst the tempest let me die, torn in a cloud by angry gkottt of men.] Par. Lost, ii. 185. While we perhaps Designing, or exhorting glorious...a fiery tempest shall be hurled, Each on his rock trans/tied, the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds. The introductory incidents are all from Milton.... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...should spout her cataracts of fire, Impendent horrors, threat'ning hideous fall One day upon our heads; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurl'd ISO Each on his rock transfix'd, the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds, or for ever sunk... | |
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