| Firdawsī - English poetry - 1814 - 316 pages
...VERSE 686. Showers golden presents from Ms kands.^ Milton alludes to the custom in Paradise Lost : Where the gorgeous east with richest hand Showers on her Kings barbaric pearl and gold. la the note on this passage ty- Warburton, it is. said to bare Voluptuous damsels trill the sportive... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Inde, Or where the gorgeous liast with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan* exalted sat. Hence ! loath'd Melancholy, Of Cerberus, and blackest midnight born, In styg'ian cave forlorn,... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...which he sought. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus^and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers...on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence: and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...some fair island will we turn to grass (With the queen's leave) her elephant and ass. 5 So Milton. f Where the gorgeous east with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. 6 ' In their lofty woods serpents and lizards, of many beantiful sorts, crawl upon the ground. Innumerable... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...Hell and Heaveu ; HiGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings harharic pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, hy merit raised To that had eminence : and, from despair... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...which he taught. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which fer Outshone the wealth of Or raus and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous east with richest hand Showers...on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd 5 To that bad eminence : and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, . , , , , ,. . . Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers,...her kings barbaric, pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...which he sought. HIGH on a thrdno of royal state, which far "Outshone the \vealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers...on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised 5 To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires... | |
| John Henry Howlett - Elocution - 1826 - 342 pages
...a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Inde ; Or where the g5rgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and go"ld, Satan exalted sat. The apparent monotone in the third and fourth lines, will form an agreeable and striking contrast... | |
| John Henry Howlett - Elocution - 1826 - 334 pages
...a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Inde ; Or where the g5rgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric, pearl and go"ld, S&tan exalted sat. The apparent monotone in the third and fourth lines, will form an agreeable and... | |
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