...its very defects the losses we deplore, that misty, formless, lifeless, anomalous, negative, chaotic shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb : which is the only counterpart, in many minds, to the name of the scripture-honoured Church ? How...

...little. They were not, perhaps, entirely new. Perhaps I had seen them before in some shadowy and doubtful shape, - If shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb." But in the honorable gentleman's speech they were shadowy and doubtful no longer. He exhibited them...

...its very defects the losses we deplore, that misty, formless, lifeless, anomalous, negative, chaotic shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb : which is the only counterpart, in many minds, to the name of the scripture-honoured Church ? How...

...defined and ill connected, that it reminds as of Million's description of the " grisly terror," death. the other shape. If shape it might be called that shape had none, Distinguishable ID member, joint or limb ; Or substance might be called that shawdoMr seemed. In looking over Mr. Halliday's...

...their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still bark and howl'd, Within, unseen." " The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as night,...

...generally represented as '• some awful thing of shadows," like Milton's keeper of Pandemonium : — " The other shape, If shape it might be called that...or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either." But though none seems ahle to give to poetry a definite shape or...

...opposition. government ; he knew not by what name to call it, nor in what terms to describe it: — 1791. A shape, " If shape it might be called, that shape had...in member, joint, or limb ; " Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, " For each seem'd either; black it stood as night, " Fierce as ten furies,...

...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...or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And...

...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...

...praise the figure for its "substitution of a sublime feeling of the unimaginable for a mere image": The other shape, If shape it might be called that...or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night . . . (2.666-70)17 However, in Milton, Satan's...