 A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived,...  The British Essayists - Side 144redigeret af - 1807Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1797 - 550 sider
...Metamorphofes before me. Among thefe were feveral monfters to which I did not know how to give a name ; worfc Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons,...and chimeras dire." MILTON. * In the middle of the firft room I met with one dreft in a mroud. This put me in mind ot the old cuftom of fcrving up a Death's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 sider
...the first quality into beasts or birds, gods or goddesses; I fancied I had all Ovid's Metamprphoses before me. -Among these were several monsters to which...know how to give a name; -worse Than fables yet have feign'dy or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. MILTON. " In the middle of the... | |
 | 1804 - 498 sider
...saints, people of the first quality into beasts or birds, gods or goddesses. I fancied I had all Ovid's Metamorphoses before me. Among these were several...monsters to which I did not know how to give a name ; Than fables yet have feign'd or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire." ' In the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 sider
...saints, people of the first quality into beasts or birds, gods or goddesses ; I fancied I had all Ovid's Metamorphoses before me. Among these were several...name; • worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. MILTON. " In the middle of the first room I met... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 sider
...saints, people of the first quality into beasts or birds, gods or goddesses ; I fancied I had all Ovid's Metamorphoses before me. Among these were several...monsters to which I did not know how to give a name j Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. MILTON.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 sider
...saints, people of the first quality into beasts or birds, gods or goddesses ; I fancied I had all Ovid's Metamorphoses before me. Among these were several...monsters to which I did not know how to give a name ; Than fables yet have feignM, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. MILTON. "... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 sider
...did not know how to give a name; • worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceiv'd, Gordons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. MILTON. " In the middle of the first room I met with one dressed in a shroud. This put me in mind of the old custom of serving up a death's head at a feast.... | |
 | 1817 - 292 sider
...progeny of the reptile world — " All prodigious things. Ahominahle, unutterahle, and worse Than fahles yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire." " The next character on the canvas is the rider on the white horse, who represents the gospel, going... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 sider
...minor sects in that nursery of " all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire." Two valuable works of Tholuck relate to this subject ; the one being a treatise on... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 296 sider
...saints, people of the first quality into beasts or birds, gods or goddesses. I fancied I had all Ovid's Metamorphoses before me. Among these were several...MILTON. In the middle of the first room I met with one dressed in a shroud. This put me in mind of the qld custom of serving up a Death's head at a feast... | |
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