To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth : at last Words interwove... The Spectator - Страница 121по Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 страници
...pines, "With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd To speak; whereat, their doubled ranks they bend From...spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst fortli : at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. n O myriads of immortal Spirits!... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 308 страници
...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he essay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth : at last 620 Words,... | |
| John Kidd - 1833 - 410 страници
...state represented by Milton to have been felt by the fallen angel — " Thrice he essayed (to speak) ; and thrice, in spite of scorn, " Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth — " But the effect produced on his mind seems to have been momentary ; at least it certainly did... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 страници
...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay 'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth: at_last 620 Words,... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 526 страници
...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 страници
...crime condemned, &c. yet how they stood faithful. To speak ; whereat their douhled ranks they hend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With...all his peers : attention held them mute. Thrice he essay 'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, hurst forth : at last 620 Words,... | |
| 1835 - 522 страници
...added the gentle touches of sorrow and remorse, when " Attention held them mute ; Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth" — we must confess that poet's pen never turned to shape a conception so noble and poetical, as that... | |
| 1836 - 558 страници
...pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on I in- blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From...all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth ! at last Words, interwove... | |
| 1836 - 932 страници
...those innumerable spirits whom he had Involved in the same guilt and ruin with himself: He now prepar'd To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend,...wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all bis peers: attention beld them mute. Thrice be essay'd, and thricu, in spite of scorn, Tears, such... | |
| Frank Raymond Leavis - 1968 - 340 страници
...Milton, Satan shaken with remorse as he surveys the fallen followers of his pride: Thrice he assay' d, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears such as angels weep burst forth; at last Words interwoven with sighs found out their way. Is there even in Shakespeare a greater moment?... | |
| |