Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... ancient physics that in Chaos appear as four warring champions , Hot , Dry , Moist , and Cold . ( See Professor Himes's diagram on next page . ) The first , or central region , is distinguished for destructive heat the second , for ...
... ancient physics that in Chaos appear as four warring champions , Hot , Dry , Moist , and Cold . ( See Professor Himes's diagram on next page . ) The first , or central region , is distinguished for destructive heat the second , for ...
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... ancient times , has its ample spaces within ; though these are narrow in comparison with that spacious hall , " like a covered field , ” con- structed by Mulciber . The wonderful pavement and the vaulted roof lined with silver likewise ...
... ancient times , has its ample spaces within ; though these are narrow in comparison with that spacious hall , " like a covered field , ” con- structed by Mulciber . The wonderful pavement and the vaulted roof lined with silver likewise ...
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... ancients both in poetry and all good oratory . This neglect , markably coincides with this preface of Milton's . He stigmatizes ' our rude beggarly rhyming , brought first into Italy by Goths and Huns , when all good verses , and all ...
... ancients both in poetry and all good oratory . This neglect , markably coincides with this preface of Milton's . He stigmatizes ' our rude beggarly rhyming , brought first into Italy by Goths and Huns , when all good verses , and all ...
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... ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming . - 5th ; in 54 and 615 , after the 6th ; in 53 and 309 , after the 7th ; in 12 and 742 , after the 8th ; in 386 and 443 , Book I. , and 547 and ...
... ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming . - 5th ; in 54 and 615 , after the 6th ; in 53 and 309 , after the 7th ; in 12 and 742 , after the 8th ; in 386 and 443 , Book I. , and 547 and ...
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... ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for that angels were long before this visible creation was the opinion of many ancient fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to deter- mine thereon , he refers to a full ...
... ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for that angels were long before this visible creation was the opinion of many ancient fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to deter- mine thereon , he refers to a full ...
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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...