Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Books I and II John Milton. VERTICAL SECTION , Showing ( conjecturally ) Milton's cosmography , the Empyreal Heavens , our Starry Universe , Hell , and Chaos . See Preface .
Books I and II John Milton. VERTICAL SECTION , Showing ( conjecturally ) Milton's cosmography , the Empyreal Heavens , our Starry Universe , Hell , and Chaos . See Preface .
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... Chaos with a crystal wall having opal towers and sapphire battlements . In the wall a vast gate opens on Chaos , and from it runs a broad and ample road , ' powdered with stars , ' whose dust is gold , to the throne of God . The throne ...
... Chaos with a crystal wall having opal towers and sapphire battlements . In the wall a vast gate opens on Chaos , and from it runs a broad and ample road , ' powdered with stars , ' whose dust is gold , to the throne of God . The throne ...
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... chaos has a shifting , tumultuous surface like the sun . Deep in this tremendous abyss lies Hell , perhaps near the centre , possibly at the nadir ; distant , at any rate , from the light of God by three times the radius of our starry ...
... chaos has a shifting , tumultuous surface like the sun . Deep in this tremendous abyss lies Hell , perhaps near the centre , possibly at the nadir ; distant , at any rate , from the light of God by three times the radius of our starry ...
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... Chaos . It is a vast hollow sphere , hung at its zenith by a golden chain from the Empy- rean . It is beaten by the winds of Chaos , and has only [ sic ] light on that side of it which is turned to Heaven . At its very zenith a bright ...
... Chaos . It is a vast hollow sphere , hung at its zenith by a golden chain from the Empy- rean . It is beaten by the winds of Chaos , and has only [ sic ] light on that side of it which is turned to Heaven . At its very zenith a bright ...
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... CHAOS or the Uninhabited - a huge limit- less ocean , abyss , or quagmire , of universal darkness and lifelessness , wherein are jumbled in blustering confusion the elements of all matter , or rather the crude embryons of all the ...
... CHAOS or the Uninhabited - a huge limit- less ocean , abyss , or quagmire , of universal darkness and lifelessness , wherein are jumbled in blustering confusion the elements of all matter , or rather the crude embryons of all the ...
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Abarim abyss abyss of Chaos Æneid Almighty amphibrach ancient angels Argob arms Beelzebub behold Belial Boeotia Book bright burning cæsura called centre Chaos Comus Dante darkness death deep Deity devils Dict dread earth Empyrean Eneid English eternal evil Exod Faerie Queene fiery fire flames flowers force fury gates glory gods Greek hath heaven heavenly hell Hesiod highth hill Himes Homer Iliad infernal Jove Julius Cæsar Keightley king Latin light Lycidas Macbeth Masson meaning Milton Moloch Muse night o'er Old Eng Ovid pain Pantheon Paradise Lost passage perhaps phrase poem poetry poets region reign rhyme river Satan says seat seems sense Shakes Shakespeare song sound space Spenser spirits Starry Universe stood Storr sublime syllable Tartarus temple thee thence Theocritus thou thought throne thunder utter vast verse viii Virgil Wedgwood winds wings word
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Page xxix - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 42 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights; if it were land that ever...