 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 sidor
...change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice. The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Paradise Lost, ii. 594. The Inferno of Dante has also 'its eternal darkness for the dwellers in fierce... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 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 Walter Gregory - 1913 - 602 sidor
...on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile, or else deep snow and ice; the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. MILTON. The Unequalled Glaciation of Antarctica. — 2. Its Coasts Fiordless except around Graham Land.... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 sidor
...forceful simplicity : — " Then comes, at dawn, the east wind, keen with frost." Milton writes: — "... the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." 8 When Satan rises on his wings to cross the flaming vault, the Genesis gives in one line an idea that... | |
 | Federico Olivero - 1915 - 290 sidor
...contintnt Lies dark and wild, bfat with perpetuai storra? Of whirhvind and dire hail. [i", 587-*]4 The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. [»- 594-5]A dungeon horrible on ali sides ronnd As one great fornace flam'd; yet from those flames... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 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... | |
 | 1920 - 472 sidor
...Parched are the plains, and frying is the field. . . . And Jove descends in showers of kindly rain. The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." perced to the rote (2). This may possibly have a physiological connotation, if one has regard to the... | |
 | John Frederick Baddeley - 1921 - 504 sidor
...meat he incautiously allowed to touch his lips in passing scarified them. As Milton says : " . . . . the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." with hoar-frost a full inch deep, and lighted by the golden or roseate hues of sunset or dawn, was... | |
 | John Duncan Ernst Spaeth - 1921 - 302 sidor
...Works of RS Hawker. John Lane, London and New York, 1899.) 80. — 21. EVER FIRE OR FROST. So Milton : "the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire." (See the whole passage, Paradise Lost, II, 594-603.) 8l. 8. THIS NARROW PLACE IS NOTHING LIKE, etc.... | |
 | John Milton - 1923 - 332 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... | |
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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... 
