 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 276 pages
...wont to watch On duty, fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they foon obey'd Innumerable. As when the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...to watch On duty, fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Mor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel }Yet to their general's voice they foon obey'd Innumerable. As when the potent... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd Innumerable. As when the potent... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...wont to watch On duty, fleeping found by whom they dread, Roufe and beftir themfelves e'er well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Vet to their General's voice they (oon obey'd, Innumerable. As when the... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...wont to watch On duty, sleeping found hy whom they dread. Rouse and hestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feelj Yet to their general's voice they soon ohey'd Innumerahle. As when the potent... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1801 - 424 pages
...angels as sensible of the misery of their state, while they are gathering round their leader, he says, Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. The words not in this passage must necessarily have the emphasis with the... | |
 | Letter writing - 1803 - 268 pages
...negatives make an affirmative; as, " Thou shalt not have none, is the same as Thou shall have some." 11 Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel." MILTON. It contributes much to the perspicuity and elegance of a phrase,... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...Grsecisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem ; as towards the beginning of it. jfor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel. Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd. ....~«fa Who shall tempt... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...G racisms, and sometimes Hebraisms, into the language of his poem ; as towards the beginning of it, Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel, Yet to their gen' ral's voice they soon obey'd. Who shall tempt with wandering... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...manner." " Somehow, worthy as these people are, they look upon public penance as disreputable."' RULE XVI. Two negatives, in English, destroy one another,. or...to an affirmative : as, " Nor did they not perceive him ;" that is, " they did perceive him." " His language, though inelegant, is not ungrammatical:"... | |
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They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce... 
