 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 514 pages
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of...fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, Wilh what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? Th' ascent... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of...fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low? Th' ascent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 494 pages
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. Desdent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When...fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? Th' ascent... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 384 pages
...these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant: Descent and fall To us is adverse; who hut felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, Insulting, and pursued us through Hie deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low J The' ascent is easy then. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 468 pages
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant : Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of...Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? Th" ascent is easy then. In another place, he describes... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...(if the sleepy drench Ofthat forgetful lake benumb not still) That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is...fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what compulsion, and laborious (light 80 We sunk thus low ? Th' ascent... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...torments. But perhaps 70 The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 7 j Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...to scale W,th upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Ofthat dd the power of some adjuring verse. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art s .u г native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hong... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 454 pages
...lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. -Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but fult of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight .We sunk thus low ? Th* ascent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant : Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of...Insulting, and pursued us through the deep. With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low 1 Th' ascent is easy then. In another place, he describes... | |
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The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us... 
