 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 страници
...square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat; 1050 And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star 1043. Holds gladly the port.] The earth, is not unlike a passage in ship may be said to " hold the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 страници
...Heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat; And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, here supposed to have been. But Virgil (whom Milton follows oftener than he does Homer) describes Scylla... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 страници
...of its enormous magnitude, the poet adds, that as compared with it, the World which hung from it was in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. — ii. 1051. Around the circumference of Heaven ran a "crystal wall" (vi. 860), With opal-towers and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1856 - 446 страници
...the execution. Blenheim is a morning's walk from Oxford, and is not an unworthy appendage to it — And fast by hanging in a golden chain This pendent...as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon ! Blenheim is not inferior in waving woods and sloping lawns and smooth waters to Pembroke's princely... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 страници
...Heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetf-nnJn'd square or round, With opal lowers and bailtements adoru'd Of living sapphire, once his native seat ; And fast...by the moon. Thither, full fraught with mischievous revengo, Accurs'd, and in a cursed hour, he hies. -ЖС ARGUMENT. Dieu, siégeaut sur son trône, voit... | |
 | 1857 - 652 страници
...fell." Book ii. 1. 1004. A little further on, in the same book, 1. 1050., Milton again alludes to it : " And fast by, hanging in a Golden Chain This pendent...a Star Of smallest magnitude, close by the Moon." Plato's comment is somewhat superficial and unsatisfactory. In his Theatetus, Socrates argues that... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 страници
...regions of light, the fiend weighs his spread wings to behold afar off the empyreal heaven : — " And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent...as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon." Now, in this the imagination is apt to falter and supply the thought that by " this pendent world "... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 страници
...Heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat; And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, here supposed to have been. But Virgil (whom Milton follows oftener than he does Homer) describes Scylla... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 страници
...undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battleihents adorn'd Of living sapphire, once hi» native seat; And fast by, hanging in a golden chain,...bigness as a. star Of smallest magnitude close by thé moon. Thither, full frauglit with mischievous revengH Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 622 страници
...battlements adorn'd Of living saphir, once his native seat : And fast by hanging in a golden cliain Tliis pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by thé moon. ( MILTOM, Parad. lott, book n, 10 in.) N.)w in loose garlands thick thrown oïl', thé bright... | |
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Gladly the port, though shrouds and tackle torn ; Or in the emptier waste, resembling air, Weighs his spread wings, at leisure to behold Far off the empyreal heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements... 
