| Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 404 pages
...have come forth, while Jupiter, seated in the centre, personates not inaptly these noble lines, — " And from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about;" he holds a thunderbolt in his right hand, and with his eye fixed on the victim, seems ready to launch... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...painful shock. When Milton, in his battle of the • The father of the gods his glory shrouds, InvolvM in tempests, and a night of clouds; And from the middle...bolts about. Earth feels the motions of her angry (Sod, > Her entrails tremble, and her mountains nod, > And dying beasts in forests seekabode. ) Deep... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1838 - 338 pages
...fill the mind with great and awful ideas. Example. This is very happily done in the following passage. The Father of the gods his glory shrouds. Involved...angry God, Her entrails tremble, and her mountains mill, And flying beasts in forests seek abode. Deep horror seizes every human breast ; Their pride... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1839 - 316 pages
...nil the mind with great and awful ideas. Example. This is very happily done in the following passage. The Father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involved...out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about. Earth foels the motions of her angry God, Her entrails tremble, and her mountains nod, And flying beasts... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1840 - 314 pages
...fill the mind with great and awful ideas. Example. This is very happily done in the following passage. The Father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involved...fiery bolts about. Earth feels the motions of her angrv God, Her entrails tremble, and her mountains nod, And flying beasts in forests seek abode. Deep... | |
| 1842 - 452 pages
...have come forth, while Jupiter, seated in the centre, personates, not inaptly, these noble lines — ' And from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about.' " He holds a thunderbolt in his right hand, and with his eye fixed on the victim, seems ready to launch... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pages
...prose he turned into poetry— but what was poetry at the first gained from him no additional graces.] The father of the Gods his glory shrouds, Involved...And from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits be deals his fiery bolts about Earth feels the motion of her angry God, Her entrails tremble, and her... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...rorks the hellowing vo,ce of hoiling seas rehound. The father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involv'd in tempests, and a night of clouds; And, from the middle darkness flashing out, By fits fK- deals his fiery holts ahout. Earth feds the motions of her angry god ; Her entrails tremhle, and... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1845 - 638 pages
...Sublime description, which admits of no mediocrity, and cannot subsist in a middle state; but must • The Father of the Gods his glory shrouds, Involved...and a night of clouds: And from the middle darkness flushing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about. Earth feels the motions of her angry God, Her... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pages
...The rising rivers float the nether ground— And rocks the bellowing voice of toiling seas rebound. The father of the gods his glory shrouds, Involved...and a night of clouds; And from the middle darkness Bashing out, By fits he deals his fiery bolts about Earth fuels the motions of her angry god ; Her... | |
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