 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Swartn'd and were straitenM; till the signal given, Behuld a wonderf they hut now who seein'd In higness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numherless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, • Whose midnight revels... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1811 - 702 pages
...blind bard may be credited, his infernal spirits adopted. " Behold a wonder! they but now who scem'ii In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Thronged numberless." . This poem is divided into two pans. The first commences with a most beautiful... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...crowd 77; Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they But now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like ihat pygmean race 7 Si] Beyond the Indian mount, or faery elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...croud Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given , Behold a wonder ! They but now wno seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...croud Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elvesj Whose midnight revels by a forest... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...These ponderous Tomes would contract their size, as suddenly as Milton's Devils in Pandemonium ; " Behold a wonder ! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's Giant Sons, flow, less than smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless." Shakspeare would suffer less than... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...crowj 775 Swann'd and wire straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! They but now who stemM In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose midnight reveh, by a forest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount , or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 394 pages
...renown ; but, when they come to take their place among the great assembly of the illustrious dead, " Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In bigness...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless."—— Even the raptures of Voltaire can no longer persuade men that either Mengs or Hamilton were worthy... | |
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Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless... 
