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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... universe . * In the centre of hell is the lake of fire , a ' boiling ocean . ' Three vast regions of horror lie in concentric zones around it . First , a belt of fiery volcanic soil ; then , a moist region , through which , like an ...
... universe . * In the centre of hell is the lake of fire , a ' boiling ocean . ' Three vast regions of horror lie in concentric zones around it . First , a belt of fiery volcanic soil ; then , a moist region , through which , like an ...
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... universe . The title of the poem , though perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to ...
... universe . The title of the poem , though perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to ...
Page xiv
... Universe of Pre - human existence which the poem assumes . For he was a native of that pre - human uni- verse one of its greatest and most conspicuous natives ; and what we follow in the poem , when its story is taken chronologically ...
... Universe of Pre - human existence which the poem assumes . For he was a native of that pre - human uni- verse one of its greatest and most conspicuous natives ; and what we follow in the poem , when its story is taken chronologically ...
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... Universe . At the bottom of what has hitherto been Chaos there is now marked out a kind of Antarctic region , distinct from the body of Chaos proper . This is HELL - a vast region of fire , sulphurous lake , plain , and mountain , and ...
... Universe . At the bottom of what has hitherto been Chaos there is now marked out a kind of Antarctic region , distinct from the body of Chaos proper . This is HELL - a vast region of fire , sulphurous lake , plain , and mountain , and ...
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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...