 | Edward Gibbon - 1764 - 188 páginas
...whofe command alone millions of worlds are made to tremble : nor can we read with any fatisfadtory pleafure of the devil, in Milton, warring for two...heaven againft the armies of the Omnipotent *. * The golden compafles, with which the Creator, in Milton, meafures the univerfe, excite furprize. Perhaps,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 518 páginas
...whofo command alone millions of worlds are made to tremble : nor can we read with any fclisfatiory pleafure of the Devil, in Milton, warring for two whole days in Heaveu againft the armies of the Omnipotent." TODD. none of the criticks, either ancient or modern,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 páginas
...command alone millions of worlds are made to tremble; nor can we read with any satisfactory pleasure of the devil, in Milton, warring for two whole days in heaven against the armies of the Omnipotent. The Ancients knew their advantages, and profited by them accordingly.... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 páginas
...command alone millions of worlds are made to tremble: nor can we read with any satisfactory pleasure of the devil, in Milton, warring for two whole days in heaven against the armies of the Omnipotent.^ * The golden compasses, with which the Creator, in Milton, measure!... | |
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... sublimest flights become puerile on such a subject. The almighty Fiat of Moses strikes us with admiration; but reason cannot comprehend, nor imagination describe, the operations of a deity, at whose command alone millions of worlds are made to tremble:... 