Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city... Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs ... - Page 202by Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 576 pagesFull view - About this book
| Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 382 pages
...King of Tartary, wi;h a countless army behind him to enforce it, attracted the notice uf Milton. " Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican,...from whence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica." Paradise Regained. For never since her beauty blush'd with spring, Had passion's self dared aught except... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...with a yoke ; Mules after these, camels aud dromedaries, And waggons, fraught with utensils of war. Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican...from whence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain. Such and so... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...yoke :» Mules after these, camels and dromedaries, *• And waggons, fraught with utensils of war. Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican...Besieged Albracca," as romances tell-, The city of Grallaphrone, from thence to win •" The fairest of her sex Angelica,* His daughter, sought by many... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...And waggons fraught with utensils of war. Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, 1 with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 506 pages
...subaltern officer of the same corps. CHAPTER VII. Such forces met not, nor so vast a camp, When African, with all his Northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphron, from thenre to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowessM... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...155 collection is, I have not read a fifth part of it. I should, however, like to see your army, ' Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican,...northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell.' Not that I accuse you of romaneing ; I verily believe that you have all the books you speak of. Dear... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1856 - 754 pages
...assembled in a remote province of China for the defence of his mistress, the beautiful Angelica : " When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged...Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica His daughter, sought by many prowess knights Both Paynim,... | |
| Joseph Gales - 1824 - 872 pages
...me to give some delightful poetry in exchange for very wretched prose, as Milton has described : " Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp. When Agrican, with nil his northern powers. Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Callipbrone, from whence... | |
| 1857 - 656 pages
...me to give some delightful poetry in exchange for very wretehed prose) as Milton has described — "Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican,...powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Calliphrone, from whence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest... | |
| 1857 - 690 pages
...me to give some delightful poetry in exchange for very wretched prose) as Milton has described — " Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican,...powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Calliphrone, from whence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica, His daughter, sought by manvprowest... | |
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