...events he is describing, and so uses the present tense in speaking of past events " (Mason). Example : To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inelose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute." " [Satan] now prepared MILTON, Par....

...or mountain pines, With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers : attention held them mute. ^•u Thrice he assay 'd, and thrice...

...warriors old with ordered spear and shield, Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose." 1 Mr. Masson assures us that " there are touches in...review . . . ' He now prepared To speak ; whereat their douhled ranks they hend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers ; attention...

...here she comes ; I fairly atep aside And hearken, if 1 may, her business." MiLTOV. SYNONYMS " He uow prepared To speak, whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round, With all his peers; attention held them mute." MlLTOX. " The external ear, we are...

...here she comes ; I fairly step asid« And near/ten, if 1 may, her business." Маток. SYNONYMS " He now prepared To speak, whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round, With all hi» peers ; attention held them mute." MlLTOX. " The external ear, we...

...which Milton describes as executed by the fallen angels when they wished to listen to their chief: 'Whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to...wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers.' — Paradise Lost, i. 616. BOOK vi. shower upon the backs of the men who were fighting — with Valerian,...

...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round 591. His form had yet not lost. It did later ; namely, his own particular form, from which he could...

...With singed top their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 615 To speak ; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round 591. His form had yet not lost. It did later ; namely, his own particular form, from which he could...

...mountain pines, With singi•d top, their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite...

...the same Guilt and Ruin with himself, -He nowprepared To speaki whereat theirdoubled ranks they bead From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his Peers i Attention held them mute. Thrice be assay'd, and thrice in spite of Scorn Tears such as Angels weep,...