 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Thessalian pines, 545 And Lichas from the top of CEta threw Into the Euboic sea. Others, more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical...many a harp Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall 530 By doom of battle ; and complain that fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...pines, MILTON. BOOK II And Lichas from the top of Octa threw Into th' Euboic sen. Others more mild, t me ; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...roots, Thessalian pines, And Lichas, from the top of (Eta, threw Into the Euboic sea. Others, more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing, With notes angelical,...many a harp, Their own heroic deeds, and hapless fall Hy doom of battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should inthral to force or chance. Their song... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1843 - 560 pages
...The next mention of vale is one of the most pathetic in the whole range of poetry. " Others more mild Retreated in a silent valley, sing, With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hopeless fall By doom of battle! and complain that fate Free virtue should iuthrall to force or chance.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - 1843 - 564 pages
...The next mention of vale is one of the most pathetic in the whole range of poetry. " Others more mild Retreated in a silent valley, sing, With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hopeless fall By doom of battle! and complain that fate Free virtue should inthrall to force or chance.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Into th1 Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated ill a silent valley, sing With notes angelical lo m m m m m m m m m m m m m m n m m m m m m m m+m,m-m m o m m&m'm"m#m$ ; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial ; but... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...reign in hell than serve in heaven." Perhaps of all the passages in Paradise Lost, the descrip tion of the employments of the angels during the absence...most perfect example of mingled pathos and sublimity. The character which a living poet has given of Spensei would be much more true of Milton : " Yet not... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw Into the Euboic sea. Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical...own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle; and complain that fate Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance. Their song was partial; but... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...arguments and sentiments, an eloquent dogmatism, as if each person spoke from thorough conviction. The author might here turn his philippics against...fault of the reader, not of the poet, is that when any interest of a practical kind takes a shape that can be at all turned into this (and there is little... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...during the absence of Satan, some of whom " retreated in a silent valley, sing with notes angelicul to many a harp their own heroic deeds and hapless...is the most perfect example of mingled pathos and sublimity.—What proves the truth of this noble picture in every part, u;id that the frequent complaint... | |
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Others more mild, Retreated in a silent valley, sing With notes angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall By doom of battle ; and complain that fate ' Free virtue should enthrall to force or chance. 
