| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...great event, In arms not worfe, in forefight much advanc'd. We may with more fuccefsful hope refolvc To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who BOW triumphs, and in th' excefs of joy Sole reigning holds the tyrany of hcar'n. So fpake the apoftate... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...of resolution nobler than the conquest, concludes by proclaiming ' eternal war ' against Him — ' Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy, Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heaven.' " Surely, but for the exquisite grace of the language compared with the baldness of Shelley's, I might... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...advanc'd, We may with more successful hope resulve To wage hy force or guile eternal war, Irreconeileahle to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy Sule reigning hulds the tyranny of heaven. So spake th' apostate angel, though in pain; Vaunting aloud,... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...great event, In arms uot worse, in foresight much advanc'd, We may with more successful hope moire To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand foe, : Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heav'n. So spake th' apoctate angel though in... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...fail ; Since through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanc'd, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage, by force or guile, eternal war; Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and, in the excess of Joy, Sole reigning, holds... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...wage, by force or guile, eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and, in th' excess of joy Sole reigning, holds the tyranny of Heaven." So spake th' apostate angel, though in pain, 125 Vaunting aloud, but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanc'd, , now Innumerous wings are in commotion all. Where the Rhine loses his majestic Trreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and, in the excess of joy Sole reigning, holds... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...the strength of Gods And Ihis.empyreaKsubstance caunot fail ; . .. Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced,...eternal war Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now trinmphs, and, in the excess of joy Sole reigning, holds the tyrauny of Heaven. So spake the apostate... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...heaven. C 2 Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanc'd, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanc'd, / Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holde the... | |
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