 | George Wood - 1858 - 372 oldal
...suhllme poem, *. On the morning of Christ"s nativity " — Hymn, stanza xviil " For from this happy- day The old Dragon under ground, In straiter limits bound,...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 oldal
...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,... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - 1986 - 328 oldal
...that he can no longer deceive the nations. In the words of the poet: . . . from this happy day Th' old Dragon under ground In straiter limits bound,...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail."1 The illustration shows the dragon, Satan, cast down... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 oldal
...our bliss Full and perfect is. But now begins; for from this happy day The old Dragon underground. Colvill, 0 sairer, sail IT akes my head; And sairer,...you be dead. (1. 33—36) EnSB; ESPB; FaBoBa; GBP; (1. 137-144) 41 But see, the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest: Time is our tedious song should... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - 1994 - 264 oldal
...his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day The old dragon under ground In straiter limits bound,...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. (Milton 1971a: II. 149-172) The imaginative leap to the last trumpet, followed by a return to the present,... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 oldal
...our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day Th' old Dragon under-ground15 In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 1995 - 216 oldal
...described the birth of Christ as an event imposing limits on Satan's power: from this happy day Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway. The political and military imagery of Paradise Lost does not quantify the victory in such specific... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 oldal
...of Christ. Milton alludes to the Plutarchan event in his ode "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament.... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 oldal
...colored drapery. 27. Gabriel's trumpet call when the dead will waken to be judged. Th 'old dragon 29 under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wrath to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles are dumb,... | |
 | Joint Association of Classical Teachers - 2002 - 212 oldal
...considerable literary influence. John Milton wrote in his Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roofs in words deceiving. And Elizabeth Barrett Browning in The Dead Pan (1844) reworked Plutarch:... | |
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. 
