 Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from...  The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy, Politics ... - Page 123edited by - 1811 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear ; when , contrary , he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public, scorn; he wonder'd but not long Had leisure , wondering at himself now more ; His visage drawn he felt to... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears, On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. He wonder'd, but not long Had leisure, wondering at himself now more ; His visage drawn he felt to... | |
 | 1853 - 380 pages
...world has but little influence to increase their veneration for them ; — "They hear, On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss ; the sound Of public scorn." How can this be better exemplified than by the inimitable Don Quixote ? In this extraordinary and immortal... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Shakspere. Imfamous wretch! So much below my scorn, I dare not kill thee! Dryden. He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. Milton. Thou may'st from law, but not from scorn escape; The pointed finger, cold, averted eye, Insulted... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...Their universal shout, and high applause, 505 To fill his ear : when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss ! — the sound Of public scorn : He wondered, but not long Had leisure, wondering at himself now more : 510 His visage drawn he felt... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause To nil his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn. An assembly of churchmen ought, no doubt, to be the exact reverse of an assembly of demons. That there... | |
 | 1855 - 1130 pages
...expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears On nil sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss! — the sound Of public scorn.' Driven from his field, and disappointed in all his expectations, the practised leader at once ' makes... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn: he wondered, but not long Had leisure, wondering at himself now more ; His visage drawn he felt to... | |
 | 1863 - 844 pages
...of silly geese, and irrational, venomous snakes ? " I never shall forget the sounds on my night; I never before that time fully felt the reception which the Author of All Ill in the 'Paradise Lost' meets with from the critics in the pit, at the final close of his Tragedy... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear: when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn : he wouder'd, but not long Had leisure, wondering at himself now more: His visage drawn he felt to... | |
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