 He look'd, and saw a sable sorcerer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies : All sudden, gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, heaven descends, and dance on earth, Gods, imps, and monsters,...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 253by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...C*«*! S* «**',? each «**• _ .. toon* 6 ^„t«es»>*" .,..«» And look'd, and saw a sable sorc'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies: All sudden, gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, 235 And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, heav'n descends, and dance on earth;... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...four God."'] " Di;cjte justitiam monitiet n cn tpmncre divos." And look'd, and saw a sable sorc'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies: All sudden, gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, 255 And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, heav'n descends, and dance on earth;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 196 pages
...he turn'd aside, (Net half so pleas'd when Goodman prophesy'd,) And look'd, and saw a sable sorc'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies : All sudden, gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, 235 And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, heav'n descends, and dance on earth ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...art." 23* His never-blushing head he turn'd aside, (Not half so pleas'd when Goodman prophesy'd) And look'd, and saw a sable sorcerer rise, Swift to whose...flies: All sudden gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, 2SS And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war: Hell rises, heav'n descends, and dance on earth:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...neither arts, nor sense, nor soul adoro: " Monsters of absurdity. He look'd, and saw a sable sore'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies: All...and dragons glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rash to war. Hell rises. Heaven descends, and dance on Eirti, Gods, imps and monsters, music, rage... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...simple heart, 225 Not touch'd by nature, and not reach'd by art. He look'd, and saw a sable sorc'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies :...glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. 230 Hell rises, heav'n descends, and dance on earth, Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth,... | |
 | 1818 - 646 pages
...and metaphors mto which the reader is plunged, except, perhaps, the famous medley of the Dunciad: ' All sudden, gorgons hiss and dragons glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heav'n descends, and dance on Earth, Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth, A fire, a jig,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 544 pages
...keep master out of the stable. Ver. 170. Monsters of absurdity. He look'd, and sa'.va sable sorc'rer rise. Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies; All...ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heav'n descends, and dance on Earth, Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth, A fire, a jig,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...perpetual source of vexation and disappointment. 'Reproof. | " And look'd, and saw a sable sorc'rer rise. Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies; All sudden, gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, And ten-homed fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heaven descends, and dance on earth, Gods, imps,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...cried, "It ho doea not make a jrood nctnr, I'll be d d."— And looked, and saw a sable sorcerer 1 rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies; All sudden, gorgons hiss, and dragons glare, And ten-horned fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, heaven descends, and dance on earth: 4 Gods,... | |
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