 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 386 páginas
...allusion is more clearly explained by the following comparison in the second book of Paradise Last : " As when to warn proud cities, war appears " Wag'd...Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears C " Till " Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms, " From either end of heaven the welkin... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 páginas
...; 530 Part curb tiieir fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in...battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in...armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 páginas
...rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in the troubrd sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before...legions close; with feats of arms From either end of heav*n the welkin burns. Others with vast Typhotan rage more fell Rend up both rocks and hills, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 páginas
...fields; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in...armies rush •To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 páginas
...shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigands form. As when, to warm proud cities, war appeal's Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle...spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms Frorji either end of Heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...fields ; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in...troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, ucforeteach van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears' Till thickest legions close ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 páginas
...every where ; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind ; Stigmatical in making,6 worse in mind. " As when, to warn proud cities, war appears " Wag'd...meteors, &c. The correction was made in the second folio. MALONE. * sere,] That is, dry, withered. JOHNSON. So, in Milton's Lycidas: " — ivy never sere." STEEVENS.... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 páginas
...Fart curb their firry steeds, or shuo th< goal With rapi.l wheels, or fronted brigades form. As w!ien, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in the troubled...armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 53* Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close; with feats of... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 páginas
...meteor, that Milton alludes, in the following verses : As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds ; before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either... | |
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Olympian games or Pythian fields ; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van... 
