| John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form, As when, to warn proud cities, w ar appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form, As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd t, They shift the moving toyshop of their heart; Where...strive, Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. end of Heav'n the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhœan rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms From either end... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities war appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...goal "With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wa^d in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds ; before each van 535 Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of... | |
| John Washbourn - 1825 - 696 pages
...suggested to him that noble simile in Paradise Lost — As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close : with feats of arms From either end... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 318 pages
...fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. AB when, to warn prond cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and...armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle hi the clouds, before each van 535 Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 458 pages
...the second book of Paradise Lost best explains it: ' As when to warn proud cities, war appears AVag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...the second book of Paradise Lost best explains it: ' As when to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close; with feats of arms From either end... | |
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