 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 sider
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant : '• Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of...Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low! Th' ascent is easy then. In another place, he describes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 sider
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. -Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of...fierce foe hung on our broken rear \ Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? TV ascent... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 sider
...exultation at that success which, it must be acknowledged, they had arduously obtained. CHAPTER XVII. - Who but felt, of late, When the fierce foe hung on...Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compunction and laborious flight We sunk thus lowj" MILTON. SUCH, indeed, was the impetuosity with... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 sider
...torments. But perhaps, 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, Tliiit in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ; descent and full To us is adverse. Who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 sider
...observed in the volubility and levity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant, Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fieree foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep, With what confusion... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sider
...steep to seale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let sueh bethink them, if the sleepy dreneh n, aseend Up to our native seat : deseent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fieree... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 sider
...torments! But perhaps 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...the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The ascent is easy then. The event is fear'd—Should we again provoke Our stronger,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 sider
...torments. But 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...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 Aikin - 1826 - 840 sider
...wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumn not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ; descent and fall To us is advertc. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us... | |
 | 1826 - 868 sider
...dangerous by our own timidity in attempting it. " Who • " Who but'felt of late, When the fierce foe ^uug on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through...the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? Th' ascent is cusy then." What was there to deter us from this glorious effort ?... | |
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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... 
