 The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,...  The Port Folio - 第490页1811全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 页
...call'd, that shape had none | Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, I Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, ee Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd hie head The likeness... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 页
...ii. Line 628. Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire. Paradise Lost — Continued. Book ii. Line 666. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb. Book ii. Line 681. Whence and what art thou, execrable shape ? Book ii. Line... | |
 | George Wilson - 1856 - 24 页
...certain indefinable forms. Thus Milton, in a famous passage of ' Paradise Lost,' describes Death as ' The other shape, If shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seeired either.'... | |
 | David Quint - 1993 - 448 页
...Charybdis on either side "before the gates" (649) of Hell. It is Death who is a "shapelesse shape": The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; (PL... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 页
...clinch his point about obscurity, Burke offers the following "description of Death" from Paradise Lost: The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 页
...from physical comedy or fabliau than, however ironically, from Milton's famous description of Death: "The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none" (Paradise Lost 2.666-67). strum, in his seminal study of the sister arts, valiantly attempts to accommodate... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - 544 页
...and Democrats to found the Republican party. 24. John Milton, Paradise Lost 2.666—67 (of Death): "The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none." abolished, fantastic visions of fraternity domineer in each brain-sick fancy which struts upon the... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 页
...expressive uncertainty of strokes and colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black... | |
 | Theresa M. Kelley - 1997 - 372 页
...allegorical, but that this figure is a brilliant poetic instance of a hollowed-out abstraction, that "other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none / Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb" (PL 2.666-67, p. 49). Read against the chorus of Neoclassical complaints about... | |
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