| William Mason - Gardens - 1783 - 272 pages
...&c. A fundamental rule, which is here further enlarged upon from line 126. NOTE NOTE XIV. Verfe222. ( And that the tyrant's plea) to work your harm. Alluding to Milton. So fpake the Fiend, and with necejjity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his dev'lifh deeds. PARADISE LOST,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...enlarg'd, 390 Hy conqu'ring this new world, compels me i.oiv To do what else though damn'd I 'should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...enlarg'd, 390 By conqu'ring this new world, compels me now To do what else, tho' damn'd, I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and, with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his dev'lish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree 395 Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...inlarg'd, 390 By conqu'iing this new world, compels me now To do what else though dainn'd I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree 395 Down he alights among the sportful... | |
| 1809 - 596 pages
...just,—' — By conquering this nw world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should abhor '. So spake the fiend ;. and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deed." PARADISS LOST. s. IT. quite indignant; ' Were I king of Denmark, I would lay a heavy... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...enlarg'd, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd... | |
| William Mason - Gardens - 1811 - 524 pages
...See also Mr. Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, line 57, Consult the genius of the place in all, &c. Note XIV. Verse 222. (And that the tyrant's plea)...snares ; the slenderest twine Linnaeus makes this a eharacteristical property of the fallow deer; his words are, arceturjilo horizontali. (See Syst. Nat.... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...390 By conqu'ring this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should abhor.*1 So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. Then from tiis lofty stand on that high tree 395 Down he alights among the sportful... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...food? I plead in vain; For now the father of the fleecy troop 3 (And that the tyrant's plea), to wort your harm.] Alluding to Milton. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Paradise Lost, b. iv. 1. 393. Begins his devastation, and his ewes Crowd... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing. Byron's Sardanapalus, a. 1, s. 2. With common men So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. Come ! by whatever sacred name disguis'd, Oppression,... | |
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