 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1838 - 648 pages
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance may be called that shadow seems, For each seems either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell ! " I turn away from the horrid vision that my eye may rest once more on the prospect of enduring empire,... | |
 | Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might lie called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; — black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell !" Others, as we think more rationally, consider that its horrid details were not altogether fictions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke, Baldine Saint Girons - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...member, joint, orlimb Or substance might be called that shadow seemed. For each seemed either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell ; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness ofa kingly crown had on. Burke cite de mémoire, remplaçant... | |
 | Taylor Corse - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1991 - 164 pages
...portrait of Sin and Death. The reader may recall how Milton describes Satan's first encounter with Death: black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful Dart. (PL 2.670-72) Dryden's Alecto also "shakes" and throws "a pois'nous Dart"; this "Dart" is linked by... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb. Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either . . . The first beast and Sin, whose femaleness is underscored by reference to sea and moon as well... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 236 pages
...member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeliness of a kingly crown had on. (59) "In this description... | |
 | Götz Müller - Jean Paul - 1996 - 190 pages
...Miltons Allegorie des Todes sehr nahe: The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape h ad none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or...that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black he stood äs night; Fierce äs ten ruries; terrible äs hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seem'd... | |
 | Morton D. Paley - English poetry - 1999 - 164 pages
...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. In this description all is... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 372 pages
...these Vex'd Scylla bathing in the Sea . . . The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or...Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook like a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (PL 2.648-60, 666-73,... | |
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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And... 
