 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...more the gods To look that way thou wert. Winier't Talt, 1IL S. - As when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, With singed top...stately growth, though bare Stands on the blasted heath. PL, i. 615. - for God had thrown That mountain as his garden mould, high raised ' Upon the rapid current... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1847 - 866 pages
...by the scorching heat emitted from the melted rock ; an image recalling those beautiful lines : — As when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top iheir stately growth, though bare. Stands on the blasted heath." Form, composition, and origin of the... | |
 | Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 780 pages
...contact with the sea-water spray ; indeed the trees appeared, — " As when heaven's fire Has scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top...stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath ;" and the rain-water in the cistern and vats, which was to be used for domestic purposes, was rendered... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire [lath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pine : With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1849 - 296 pages
...from eternal splendours flung 610 For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd: as when heaven's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks,...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, 3* Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepar'd 615 To s;rcan, whereat their doubled ranks they bend... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top...growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pine ; With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...splendours flung For his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when Heav'n's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth tho' bare Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
..." pain. " • * "Amerced" here means, deprived, from the Greek ctpeffa, x/i£f<n>. Ody». yiii. 64. With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath . i He no w prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...his revolt, yet faithful how they stood, Their glory wither'd : as when lleav'n 's fire Hath ecath'd 8 thougli bare, Stands on the blasted heath. lie now prepar'd To speak : whereat their doubled ranks... | |
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Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced* Of Heaven, and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt; yet faithful how they stood, Their glory withered: as when Heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, With singed top their stately... 
