 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...from heaven, leaves him, as it were, tumbling and tumbling in the verse, by a beautiful pause: — " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day." A similar and not less exquisite pause is made in the famed passage, otherwise beautiful from variety... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the ^Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 364 pages
...and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, th' . Iv'c-.ui isle : thus they relate." 100 [BOOK... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements . from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the JS'gean isle : thus they relate, Erring ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from mom To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the ^E'gean isle : thus they relate, Erring ;... | |
 | James Pillans - Classical geography - 1854 - 292 pages
...and how he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos th' Aegean Ule.—MILT. FAR. L. i. 739." 4. Tenedos,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the JEgeiai isle : thus they relate, Erring."—... | |
 | James Pillans - 1854 - 280 pages
...and how he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A Bummer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnoa th' Aegean... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 568 pages
...and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring ; for... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Animals, Mythical - 1855 - 510 pages
...Lemnos, which was thenceforth sacred to him. Milton alludes to this story in Paradise Lost, Book I. " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the JEgean isle." Mars, (Ares,) the god of... | |
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Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star... 
