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In a device that is now all too familiar, the devil is first built up by Milton – "he above the rest/In shape and gesture proudly eminent/Stood like a tow'r" - and then debunked as a washed-up idealist turned cynical and out for revenge: "dismay mixt with obdurate pride and steadfast hate".
The 10 best devils 2010
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Stood like a tow'r; his form had yet not lost/All her original brightness, nor appeared/Less than Archangel ruined ...
Annotations 2007
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Thro 'this we pass, and mount the tow'r, from whence
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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The square-built tow'r, the pillared entrance-way,
The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic Wilfred S. Skeats
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See'st not the storm-winds blowing fierce and wild * Deign level nothing save the trees that tow'r?
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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But -- what I suffer, thou canst not feel for me! this terrible yearning in my heart, this feverish burning's cruel smart, -- did I but show it, couldst thou but know it, no time here wouldst thou tarry, to watch from tow'r thou wouldst hurry; with all devotion viewing the ocean, with eyes impatiently spying, there, where her ship's sails are flying.
Tristan und Isolde Richard Wagner 1848
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But when she reach'd the tow'r, where stood the crowd,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Oh, live then, my Oak! tow'r aloft from the weeds,
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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He seized a bright flaming brand, and he hasten'd his steps to the tow'r.
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'Tis a dark tow'r of strength which thou seest, and the ocean spreads dimly behind it.
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