 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 sidor
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Callus old, Where armies whole have funk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Ver. 589. *re hail,'] Horace, Od. I. ii. 1. " Jam fatis tcrris nivis atquc dirx " Grandinis &c." NEWTON.... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1810 - 410 sidor
...— Milton, in his Paradise Lost, uses that fine old word,-synonimous to the common word frozen. " The parching Air " Burns frore, and Cold performs the effect of Fire," Also Spencer, " O ! my heart's blood is well nigh/rere, I feel." VOL. II. P Wide o'er her plains thy... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 sidor
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire, Thither by harpy-footed furies hail'd, At certain revolutions, all the damn'd Are brought ; and feel... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 sidor
...profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damned Are brought ; and feel... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 sidor
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damn' d Are brought ; and feel... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 sidor
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the' effect of fire. Thither, by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damn'd Are brought ; and feel... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 sidor
...not this favourite beauty ; he declares that he could shiver in a hot-house when he reads that — the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire ; FAB. L. ii. 595. and that, when Milton bewails his blindness, the verse, So thick a drop serene hath... | |
 | Francesco Redi, Leigh Hunt - 1825 - 262 sidor
.... DHTDEN. I thought Dryden had borrowed this fine idea of the burning of cold from Milton—Parad. Lost. Book 2. 594. • " The parching air " Burns...speaks of the burning effect of the North-wind— " Boreae penetrabile frigus adurat." • Dryden has neglected the word here, to introduce it afterwards.... | |
 | William Thomas Petty- Fitzmaurice (earl of Kerry.) - 1830 - 102 sidor
...xcvii. 2.) — " Clouds and darkness were round about him :" and many other passages in the Psalms. [/. 594.] The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. " When the cold north wind bloweth it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 sidor
...profound, as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. 595 Thither by harpy-footed furies haled, At certain revolutions, all the damn'd Are brought ; and... | |
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Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce. From beds of raging fire to starve in ice... 
