 They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce...  The Spectator ... - Page 1641803Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 pages
...fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their Generals Voyce they foon obeyd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypt s evill day... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 pages
...fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their Generals Voyce they foon obeyd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day... | |
 | Royal Society of New Zealand - Science - 1910 - 892 pages
...permis/sioji of/ dll-r/i I '/ling Heaven/ Left him at large to his own dark designs, (PL, i, 213.) e. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which/ they were/, or the' fierce pains'! not feel/; (PL, i, 336.) /. You lack/ the se«/*o» o// all n<i//tiires, sleep/. (Macb., Ill, iv. 141.) g. What... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which thy were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their General's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Waved round the coast,... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...mean ? Are they insensible ? No. The Poet delivers yon from that supposition, if you have entertained it — " Nor did they not perceive the evil plight...In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel." They did perceive the evil plight in which they were — they did feel theyfercs panu. They lay in... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...Ancient Poets, and with Aristotle's Rule, has infused a great many Latinisms as well as Graecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the Language of his Poem; as towards the Beginning of it, [I, 335-7; II, 523-8; XI, 376-7]. Under this Head may be reckoned the placing the Adjective after the... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...like surprised sentries, partly numbed still, but not without awareness: Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. (I, 335^ They obey "their great Sultan," and come pouring in haste, innumerable as locusts or the barbarians... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread,0 Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which...pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed Innumerable. As when the potent rod Of Amram's son in Egypt's evil day0 Waved round the coast,... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceave the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. (PL 1.331-36) That lovely "ere well awake" catches something appealing, even humanly sympathetic, and... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to thir General's Voice they soon obey'd Innumerable. As when the potent Rod Of Amram's Son in Egypfs... | |
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