 | 1810 - 482 pages
...heav'n and battle proud With rain attempt. Him the Almighty Power 1 1 nr Til headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy llf Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...and battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the etherial sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal meni he with his... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...proud, "With vain attempt. Him the almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, 45 With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell Tn adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. Nine tirm s the space that... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 428 pages
...make the observation more evident than by the following quotations. -Him the almighty power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky. With hideous...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. Paradise Lost, book I. -Now storming fury rose, Ol brazen chariots rag'd ; dire was the noise Of conflict... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...never before printed.' his chariot of power; hurling the apostate spirits headlong into the gulf ' Of bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine...fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.' The ' Paradise Regained,' observes Dr. Newton, is very worthy of the author; and, contrary to what Mr.... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...into little compass : — " Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal •Icy, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms." The thoughts, nay, even the words, are here thrown together with mountain tumult. Music put to such lines might be played... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 424 pages
...evident than by the following quotations. -— Him the almighty power Hnrl'd headlong flaming from tli* ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. Parodist Lost, look if. -Now storming fury rose, Of brazen chariots rag'd , dire was the nois« Of... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...mentions Satan in the beginning of his poem. -Him the almighty Power HuiTd headlong flaming from Hi' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. We have likewise several noble hints of it in the infernal conference : ' () prince ! O chief of many... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...Satan in the beginning of his poem. ' Him the almighty Power HniTd headlong flaming from th, etbereal sky,, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...penal fire, Who durst defy th, Omnipotent to arms. VOL. XI. N We have likewise several noble hints of it in the infernal conference : ' O prince ! O chief... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Heaven, and battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty power, Hurl'd headlong naming from the with glory, and attendance of to perform Uic work...with hymns the performance thereof, and his re-as the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his... | |
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With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. 
