 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...kigb up.hung, 55 The hooked chariot flood, :• ••' Unftain'd with hoftilc blood, V. But peacefu1 was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign...peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whift Smoothly the waters kift, 65 Whifp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...throng, And kings fat flill with awful eye, As if they furely knew their fovran. Lord was by* 69 V. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whift Smoothly the waters kift, 6j Whifpering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now haih quite forgot... | |
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...the poetry of the ftanza immediately following, an exprefiion or two excepted, unworthy of Milton. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the prince of...light His reign of peace upon the earth began ; The wind, with wonder whift, Smoothly the waters kift, Whifp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now had... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...awful eye, As if they furely knew their fov'reign Lord was by, v. But peaceful was the night,' Whcreiu the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder \vhilt Smoothly the waters kift, Whifp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...throngi And kings fat li ill with awful eye, As if they furcly knew their forran Lord m» bf > '35 V. fil But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...peace upon the earth began : The winds with wonder whifc Smoothly the waters kift, (•< Whifpering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...unexceptionable and pure; but its errors are venial, and it closes beautifully — Who (the ocean) now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The thirteen succeeding stanzas are disfigured by numerous conceits; but from the nineteenth, The Oracles... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by v. But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of...winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean, \Vho now hath quite forgot to rave, [wave. \Vhile birds of calm... | |
 | 1808 - 170 pages
...heard the world around, No boftile chiefs to furious combat ran ; But peaceful was the night, In which the prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began. 2 The fhepherds on the lawn, Before the point of dawn, In focial circle fat, while all around The gentle... | |
 | 1809 - 562 pages
...Bethlehem, nearly in latitude thirty-oner The winds with wonder whist Smoothly the waters kist, Whisp'ring new joys to the mild ocean$ % Who now hath quite forgot...While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. V. 64, " Perque dies placidos hiberno tempore septert Incubat Halcyone pendentibus asquore nitiis.... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 456 pages
...with awful eye, As if they furely knew their fovran Lord was by. V. But peaceful was the night, 61 Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds, with wonder whift, Smoothly the waters kift, 65 Ver, 55. The idle fpear andjhield were high vp hung ;] Chivalry... | |
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