| William Cowper - 1836 - 402 páginas
...easy slope Receding wide, they press'd against the ribs, 65 And bruised the side, and elevated high * The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none. Par. Lost, in. 666. 6 The arch'd and ponderous roof; by its own weight Made steadfast and imraoveable.... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms. The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Or substance might be called that shadow seem'd; Distinguishable in member joint or limb; For each... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 páginas
...he has finished the portrait of the king of terrours : - The other shape, Ifshape it might be calCd day " from the woolsack, to shew that the commons have an uncon" tronlable, unquali he culla that shadow seem'd ; ! Part IV. sect. 14, 16, 16. 38 For each seem'd either ; black he stood... | |
| Geraldine Friedman - 1996 - 300 páginas
...Deep scars of Thunder had intrencht" (Paradise Lost, 1.599-601), and to the shapeless shape of Death: "The other shape, / If shape it might be call'd that...none / Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb" (Paradise Lost, 2.666-68), both of which are figures of sedition. Bewell notes that being "shaped and... | |
| Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 páginas
...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight short... | |
| Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 páginas
...colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible... | |
| Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 páginas
...bark'd and howl'd Within unseen. Far less abhorr'd than these Vex'd Scylla bathing in the Sea . . . The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that...Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook like a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (PL 2.648-60, 666-73,... | |
| Daniel Albright - 1997 - 324 páginas
...produced by huge indeterminacies - Burke cites Milton's description of Death in Paradise Last (1674): The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that...seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night. (2.666-7o) Shelley's Demogorgon, Yeats's mummies, imitate this rhetoric of pure reverberation, nothing-defining.... | |
| Auguste Elfriede Christa Canitz, Gernot Rudolf Wieland - 1999 - 318 páginas
...Milton's Paradise Lost, a commonplace of eighteenth-century discussions of the sublime (Knapp 52): The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that...seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night. (II. 666-70) Then Coleridge concludes, The grandest efforts of poetry are where the imagination is... | |
| Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 338 páginas
...Spirit. (II. iv. 2-7) This description, if that is what it can be called, recalls Death in Paradise Lost: The other shape — If shape it might be call'd that...seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night137 In its consciously calling attention to indescribability, however, it is Paradise Lost as... | |
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