| 1856 - 330 pages
...fortb, with no less truth of history than beauty of poetry, in Milton's immortal Christmas Hymn : " From this happy day The old dragon under ground In...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...brake : The aged earth, aghast With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shah" spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from... | |
| English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...outbrake : The aged earth aghast, With terror of that blast, Shall from the centre to the surface shake ; When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 pages
...outbrake : The aged earth aghast With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake ; When at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge...perfect is ; But now begins : for from this happy day Th' old dragon under ground In straiter limits bonnd, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 pages
...outbroke : The aged earth aghast With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake ; When at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge...in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at hist our bliss Full and perfect is ; But now begins : for from this happy day Th1 old dragon under... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...brake : The aged earth aghast, With terror of that hlast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake ; When at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. XVIII. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The... | |
| George Wood - 1858 - 372 pages
...alludes to it, in his suhllme poem, *. On the morning of Christ"s nativity " — Hymn, stanza xviil " For from this happy- day The old Dragon under ground,...half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see Ms kingdom fail Bwings the scaly horror of his folded tail," eta chief to where I stood, gazing with... | |
| George Wood - 1858 - 378 pages
...nativity "—Hymn, stanza xrlll " For from this happy day The old Dragon under ground, In straitcr limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fall Swings the scaly horror of his folded tall," etc. chief to where I stood, gazing with wonder,... | |
| Nehemiah Adams - 1858 - 304 pages
...himself or be cast away." If in yonder burial-place your pastor witnesses the scenes of that day, — " When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne " — he will remember how he prayed for you there, and preached to you here ; how, at a place which... | |
| Jesus Christ - 1858 - 200 pages
...outbrake : The aged earth aghast, With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake : When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne. XVIII. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from this happy day The... | |
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