 Etrurian shades High overarched embower, or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen,...  The Practical Teacher - Page 1291884Full view - About this book
 | Neil Forsyth - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 398 pages
...Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore thir floating carkases And broken Chariot Wheels, so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering...the Flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. (PL 1.301-13) The syntactic complexity of these lines is staggering. As Fish well shows, with perhaps... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore thir floating Carcasses 310 And broken Chariot Wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the Flood, Under amazement of thir hideous change. He call'd so loud, that all the hollow Deep Of Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates,... | |
 | Robert Pogue Harrison - Social Science - 2010 - 224 pages
...imbow'r; or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce Winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red-Sea Coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian Chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursu'd The Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating Carcasses And broken... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...or scatter'd sedge Afloat, when with fierce Winds Orion arm'd 305 Hath vext the Red-Sea Coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian Chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursu'd The Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore thir floating Carcasses 310 And broken... | |
 | Jack Richardson - American literature - 2009 - 194 pages
...sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o 'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry While with perfidious...Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot-wheels. Also known as Epic Simile. i homonym one of two or more words... | |
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