 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 pages
...princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, 305 With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies...and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake : " Thrones and Imperial Powers ! Offspring of Heav'n ! 310 Ethereal Virtues... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean1 shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies...audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon- tide air, while thus he spake. Thrones and imperial Powers, offspring of heav'n, Ethereal Virtues... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - History - 1921 - 522 pages
...Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care " — — " Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies...and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air." In saying that he possessed every skill and every resource of the practised orator I should have... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...And princely counsel in his face yet shone Majestic, though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantrun I defy. WB RHODES — Bombastes Furioso. Sc. 4. 5 Just the air. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 300. 19 We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...care; And princely counsel on his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies;...and attention still as night Or summer's noontide ah-. S. Raphael, "the sociable spirit," Milton draws from an outside point of view: He stood Veil'd... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...And Princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestick though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest Monarchies;...and attention still as Night Or Summer's Noon-tide air, while thus he spake. Thrones and imperial Powers, off-spring of heav'n, Ethereal Virtues; or these... | |
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, With Atlantean ather, I have always defended you, and said, I didn't...576 577 means. And I dared say you'd make a very go air, while thus he spake : "Thrones and imperial Powers, Offspring of Heaven, Ethereal Virtues! or... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1925 - 670 pages
...Deliberation sat, and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone. Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies;...and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air. It was this presence that achieved triumph with the immediacy of a Caesar, that came, saw, and... | |
 | John Howard Harris - Educators, American - 1926 - 622 pages
...rose in his place to reply. In his rising he seemed a pillar of state. "Sage he stood with Atlantean shoulders fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies. -His look drew audience still as night, or summer's noontide air." From vast reserves of knowledge and power, with relentless... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...princely counsel in his face yet shon, Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood, 305 With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies;...and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air, while thus he spake: — 'Thrones and Imperial Powers, Offspring of Heaven, 310 Ethereal Virtues!... | |
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A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew... 
