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...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, 670 Fierce as ten...terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The...

...to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. * * * * » * * * The other shape, If shape it might be called — that...called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either: — Again in describing Satan, nothing can surpass the effect with which he uses adjectives of size...

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...generally represented as '• some awful thing of shadows," like Milton's keeper of Pandemonium : — " The other shape, If shape it might be called that...called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either." But though none seems ahle to give to poetry a definite shape or form, yet all are agreed that " What...

...colouring, he has finished the portrait of the King of Terrors. If shape it might be called, which shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or...that shadow seemed,— For each seemed either, black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his...

...opposition. government ; he knew not by what name to call it, nor in what terms to describe it : — 1791. A shape, If shape it might be called, that shape had...in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, " Fierce as ten furies,...

...opposition. government ; he knew not by what name to call it, nor in what terms to describe it: — 1791. A shape, " If shape it might be called, that shape had...in member, joint, or limb ; " Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, " For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, " Fierce as ten furies,...

...comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms. The other shape, If shape...For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness...

...Or eubstance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it flood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook...seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Stttan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving, onward came as fust With horrid strides...