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 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 strani
...enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then .from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 strani
...father of the fleecy troop 3 (And that the tyrant's plea), to wort your harm.] Alluding to Milton. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Paradise Lost, b. iv. 1. 393. Begins his devastation, and his ewes Crowd to the spoil, with imitative zeal. Since... | |
 | 1828 - 604 strani
...India, unless it be the stale and vague pretext of state necessity, the usual argument of tyrants? -' So spake the fiend, And with necessity, the tyrant's plea, Excused his devilish deeds.' But, besides that public men may easily mistake the gratification of their own particular propensities... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 290 strani
...enlarged, By conquering this new world, compel me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should ahho<So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 strani
...innocence Melt, as I do, yet public reason just, Honour and empire with revenge enlarged, 390 So spase the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish* deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree 395 Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 strani
...enlarged, 390 By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should ahhor.' So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree 395 Down he alights among the sportful herd 382. her widest... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 strani
...enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do, what else, though damn'd, I shoul'd abhor.' So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 strani
...enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do, what else, though damn'd, I shoul'd abhor." So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 strani
...enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should abhor." So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand, on that high tree, Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 strani
...vacant throne.— Tytler. 4. Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot. Shakspeare. 5. So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his dev'lish deeds. Milton. 6. To get beautiful allegories, a perfect poetic symbol, was not the want of... | |
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