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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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And over them triumphant Death his dart

25 lines
Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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hook, — ^but delayM to strike, ^c.*' Paradise Lost, book xi. line 48g. > See two noble instances at 1. 141. of the ISth Book of tlie Iliad, and in the application ofthe same simile a few lines below. VOL.1. e Ai xxviii MR. SEWARD'S PREFACE. To all the under world, all nations, seas.And unfrequented desarts where the snow dwells ;Wakens the ruined monuments, and thereInforms again the dead bones with your virtues • ." Thie four first lines are extremely nervous, but the imoge which appears toexcel the noble one of Jonson above, as Fame pitched on mcfc nt Apennine(whose top is supposed viewless from its stupendous height) and fromthence sounding tneir virtues so loud that the dead awake ^nd are re-animated to hear them. The close of the'sentiment is extremely in thospirit of Shakespeare and Milton ; the former says of a storm " That with the hurly Death itself awakes j" Milton in Comus, describing a lady's singing, says; *' He took in sounds that might create a soulUnder the ribs of Death." ' To return to Shakespeare — With him we must soar far above the toplessApennine, and there behold an image much nobler than our author's^ame. ** For now sits Expectation in the air*,And hides a sword from hilts unto the pointWith crowns imperial.*'—
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