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" the Almighty Power, Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Page 354
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 520 pages
...before printed.' his chariot of power; hurling the apostate spirits headlong into the gulf i. ' Of bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.' The ' Paradise Regained,' observes Dr. Newton, is very worthy, of the author;...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 8

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1819 - 464 pages
...Itniu'd impious war in Heaven, and battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Ilurl'd headlong flaming from the' ethereal sky, With hideous...measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vani|umh'd, rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded, though immortal: but his doom Keserv'd...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 pages
...evident than by the following quotations. -— Him the almighty power Hnrl'd headlong flaming from tli* ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. -Now storming fury rose, Parodist Lost, look if. Of brazen chariots rag'd ,...
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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36

British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...Satan in the beginning of his poem. ' Him the almighty Power HniTd headlong flaming from th, etbereal sky,, With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th, Omnipotent to arms. VOL. XI. N We have likewise several noble hints of it in the infernal conference:...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 pages
...following description is upon the whole agreeable, though the subject described is in itself dismal: Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd rolling in the fiery gulf, Confounded tliuugh immortal ! but his doom Reserr'd...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...following description is upon the whole agreeable, though the subject described is in itself dismal: Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid cre\v Lay vanqtjish'd rolling irt the fiery gulf, Confounded though immortal ! but his doom Reserv'd...
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Paradise lost, a poem

John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...battle pro With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Powe Hurl'd headlong flaming from the etherial sk.j With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and n To mortal men, he with his horrid...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the' etherial sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless...perdition: there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal tire, Who durst defy the' Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space, that measures day and night To...
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A Comment on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

John Taafe (Knight commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem]) - 1822 - 558 pages
...City of Jerusalem. This hollow had been caused ( as we shall be told) by the fall of Lucifer ; who by the Almighty power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion • fell with such violence upon the southern hemisphere that he trans6xed the, till then solid, globe:...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

1822 - 292 pages
...battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the' etherial sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition: there to dwell I ii adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the' Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space,...
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