...likened to a cormorant: — So clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold: Thence up he flew, and in the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. The curious bottle-green plumage, green eyes, long hooked beak, and head surmounted by a crest of the smaller...

...grand Thief into God's fold : So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue...

...offers a tribute to the uncanny nature of this bird, when he says of Satan: " Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew. Sat like a cormorant." After this we hoped to explore Bald Island, the home of the puffins, but the wind proving unfavourable...

...gunnel of a punt one might infer that they would be at home on trees. They are. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant, is what Milton tells us of the first approach of the Tempter in Eden. Some kinds breed on low trees...

...Messrs. A. Gallenkamp and Co., Ltd.] THE CHRISTMAS TUKE. By SIB GEORGE BIRDWOOO, KCIE, CSI, MD, LL.D. The Tree of Life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew. —MILTON, Paradise Lout, Iv. 194, l»r>. PART I. Only during the past fifty to sixty years has the...

...grand Thief into God's fold: So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and ; !~u & ( yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor ou the virtue thought...

...grand Thief into God's Fould: So since into his Church lewd Hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle Tree and highest there that grew. Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising Death To them who liv'd ; nor on the virtue thought...

...grand Thief into God's fold: So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived; nor on the virtue thought...

...grand thief into God's fold : So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. (4.183-96) Here the interruption of the leisurely epic narrative by one line of invective (prepared...

...grand Thief into God's fold: So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and @ 8 / ۳* m ; G # #0 t Qc, g 0 ! yet not true life OBS POETRY QUOTATIONS To them who lived; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving...