Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... angelic assem- bly meets ; and nearer to the hill is the pavement like a sea of jasper . Beyond are vast regions , where are the blissful bowers . of ' amarantine shade , fountain , or spring , ' . . . and among them the archangels have ...
... angelic assem- bly meets ; and nearer to the hill is the pavement like a sea of jasper . Beyond are vast regions , where are the blissful bowers . of ' amarantine shade , fountain , or spring , ' . . . and among them the archangels have ...
Page ix
... angelic . May this slight contribution lead at least a few others to love more warmly this kingliest of English souls , and to study more intelligently and more reverently this loftiest work of the human imagination . GIRLS ' HIGH ...
... angelic . May this slight contribution lead at least a few others to love more warmly this kingliest of English souls , and to study more intelligently and more reverently this loftiest work of the human imagination . GIRLS ' HIGH ...
Page xv
... Angels , " or " Sons of God , " who draw near to His throne in worship , derive thence their nurture and their delight , and yet live dispersed through all the ranges and recesses of the region , leading severally their mighty lives and ...
... Angels , " or " Sons of God , " who draw near to His throne in worship , derive thence their nurture and their delight , and yet live dispersed through all the ranges and recesses of the region , leading severally their mighty lives and ...
Page xvi
... angels wing down into its repulsive obscurities . The crystal floor or wall of Heaven divides them from it ; underneath which , and unvisited of light , save what may glimmer through upon its nearer strata , it howls and rages and ...
... angels wing down into its repulsive obscurities . The crystal floor or wall of Heaven divides them from it ; underneath which , and unvisited of light , save what may glimmer through upon its nearer strata , it howls and rages and ...
Page xvii
... Angels are thrust . For nine days and nights they have been falling through Chaos , or rather being driven through Chaos by the Messiah's pursuing thunders , before they reach this new home destined for them ( VI . 871 ) . When they do ...
... Angels are thrust . For nine days and nights they have been falling through Chaos , or rather being driven through Chaos by the Messiah's pursuing thunders , before they reach this new home destined for them ( VI . 871 ) . When they do ...
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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...