 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...sapphire, once his native seat ! 1050 And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendant World,4 in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies. 5 1055 Biiid... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat ; And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies. BOOK 11I.... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...end, and being beat back, must, therefore, form an eddy or whirlpool.—Pearce. This pendent world, 1 in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies. 1 By " this... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...of its enormous magnitude, the poet adds, that as compared with it, the World which hung from it was in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. — ii. 1051. Around the circumference of Heaven ran a "crystal wall" (vi. 860), With opal-towers and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1856 - 446 pages
...walk from Oxford, and is not an unworthy appendage to it — And fast by hanging in a golden chain This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon ! Blenheim is not inferior in waving woods and sloping lawns and smooth waters to Pembroke's princely... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...on, in the same book, 1. 1050., Milton again alludes to it : " And fast by, hanging in a Golden Chain This pendent World, in bigness as a Star Of smallest magnitude, close by the Moon." Plato's comment is somewhat superficial and unsatisfactory. In his Theatetus, Socrates argues that... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...measureless space of countless solar systems ; and all this was meant when the arch fiend was gazing at " This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon." Again : what a transcendent effort is that by which, in recounting the hosts of Pandemonium, the poet's... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...end, and being beat back, must, therefore, form an eddy or whirlpool. — Pearce. This pendent world,1 in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies. 1 By " this... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 816 pages
...battleihents adorn'd Of living sapphire, once hi» native seat; And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a. star Of smallest magnitude close by thé moon. Thither, full frauglit with mischievous revengH Accursed, and in a cursed hour, he hies... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861 - 622 pages
...battlements adorn'd Of living saphir, once his native seat : And fast by hanging in a golden cliain Tliis pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by thé moon. ( MILTOM, Parad. lott, book n, 10 in.) N.)w in loose garlands thick thrown oïl', thé bright... | |
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. 
