 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...  Paradise lost, a poem - Side 23af John Milton - 1823Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 sider
...perhaps 70 The way seems difficult and steep, to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. r z Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight 80 We sunk thus low ? Th' ascent is easy then ; Th' event is fear'd ; should we again provoke Our stronger,... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 sider
...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 forgetful...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 sider
...wing against a higher foe. Let such hethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake henumh not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up...native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who hut felt of late, \\hen the fierce foe hung on our hrokeurear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 sider
...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 forgetful...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 sider
...The way seems difficult, and steep to scale With adverse -wing, against a higher foe.— t — Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...our proper motion, we ascend Up to our native seat. Descend.s.nAfaTl To us is ad-verse. Who but felt of late When our fierce foe hung on our broken rear,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 sider
...observed in the volubility and le. vity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rc«r Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep. With what ponfusion and laborious flight We sunk... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 sider
...But perhapi 7P 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...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 lp to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 sider
...against a higher foe. ;/•>.» Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumm not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up...deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We stink thus low ? The ascent is easy then; The event Is fear'd; should we again provoke Our stronger,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sider
...foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumn not still, That in onr proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent...what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low 2 The ascent is easy then ; The event is fear'd ; should we again provoke Our stronger, some worse... | |
 | 1811 - 858 sider
...at an in* A passage from Milton was most appositely quoted upon this subject in the Qwtcrly Review. Descent and fall To us is adverse : Who but felt of...flight We sunk thus low? the ascent is easy then. hospitable season, to give battle to their adversaries, and gain over them a signal victory ; it was... | |
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