 Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...  Elements of Criticism - Page 15by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung, Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile; So numberless were those bad angels seen, Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darkeh'd all the land of Nile ; So numberless where those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...nether crimes So fpeediry can venge. Sbak. King Lear. Numberlefs were thofe bad angels fcen Hov'rmg on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and furrounding fires. Milton. 3. Wernal ; belonging to the regions below.— No lefs deli re To found this nether empire,... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...Pharao hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile; So numberless were those bad angels seen, Hovering on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Paradise Lost, B. 1. Such comparisons have, by some writers, t been condemned for... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...Egypt's evil day, Waved round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up catl'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, 341 That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung, Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad Angels seen. Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, 345 'Twixt upper, nether,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...Egypt's evil day \Vav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile ; So numberless were those bad angels seen, Hov'ring on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Egypt's evil day, \V. .-.'.! round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern azlitt numberless were those bad angels seen, Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud 3*° Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the. cope of hell 345 'Twixt upper, nether,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Egypt's evil day, Wav'd round the eoast, up eall'da pitehy eloud Of loeusts, warping on the eastern numberless were those bad angels seen, Hovering on wing under the eope of Hell, 'Twixt upper, nether,... | |
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