Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... Satan's was , far blazing on a hill , of diamond quarries and of golden rocks . " * Like those of earth , ' this continent of spacious heaven ' has its ocean . That ocean is Chaos . It lies beside and beneath * Milton Primer , pp . 84 ...
... Satan's was , far blazing on a hill , of diamond quarries and of golden rocks . " * Like those of earth , ' this continent of spacious heaven ' has its ocean . That ocean is Chaos . It lies beside and beneath * Milton Primer , pp . 84 ...
Page vii
... Satan , with difficulty and labor hard , ' ' O'er bog or steep , through strait , rough , dense , or rare , With head , hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims , or sinks , or wades , or creeps , or flies . ' Yet it is an ...
... Satan , with difficulty and labor hard , ' ' O'er bog or steep , through strait , rough , dense , or rare , With head , hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims , or sinks , or wades , or creeps , or flies . ' Yet it is an ...
Page xiv
... Satan . He , as all critics have perceived , and in a wider sense than most of them have perceived , is the real hero of the poem . He and his actions are the link between that new World of Man , the infancy of which we behold in the ...
... Satan . He , as all critics have perceived , and in a wider sense than most of them have perceived , is the real hero of the poem . He and his actions are the link between that new World of Man , the infancy of which we behold in the ...
Page xvi
... Satan or Lucifer . In him the effect of the decree is rage , envy , pride , the resolution to rebel . He conspires with his next subordinate , known afterwards as Beelzebub ; and there is formed by them that faction in Heaven which ...
... Satan or Lucifer . In him the effect of the decree is rage , envy , pride , the resolution to rebel . He conspires with his next subordinate , known afterwards as Beelzebub ; and there is formed by them that faction in Heaven which ...
Page xix
... Satan and his rebel ad- herents in Hell begin to recover from their stupor -- Satan the first , and the others at his call . There ensue Satan's first speech to them , their first surveys of their new domain , their building of their ...
... Satan and his rebel ad- herents in Hell begin to recover from their stupor -- Satan the first , and the others at his call . There ensue Satan's first speech to them , their first surveys of their new domain , their building of their ...
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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...