Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page xv
... darkness and lifelessness , wherein are jumbled in blustering confusion the elements of all matter , or rather the crude embryons of all the elements , ere as yet they are distinguishable . There is no light there , INTRODUCTION . XV.
... darkness and lifelessness , wherein are jumbled in blustering confusion the elements of all matter , or rather the crude embryons of all the elements , ere as yet they are distinguishable . There is no light there , INTRODUCTION . XV.
Page xxii
... darkness " and " the lake that burns with fire and brim- stone . " The darkness is called " utter " by Milton to distinguish it both in quality and place from " middle or chaotic darkness , as further from heavenly light and more ...
... darkness " and " the lake that burns with fire and brim- stone . " The darkness is called " utter " by Milton to distinguish it both in quality and place from " middle or chaotic darkness , as further from heavenly light and more ...
Page xxvi
... darkness appropriate to them . . . . Professor Masson makes a very natural oversight in the location of the throne and court of the Anarch of the Abyss , saying of Satan on his voyage , " He reaches at length , about midway in his ...
... darkness appropriate to them . . . . Professor Masson makes a very natural oversight in the location of the throne and court of the Anarch of the Abyss , saying of Satan on his voyage , " He reaches at length , about midway in his ...
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... darkness , fitliest called Chaos : here Satan , with his angels , lying on the burning lake , thunderstruck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confusion ; calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him ...
... darkness , fitliest called Chaos : here Satan , with his angels , lying on the burning lake , thunderstruck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confusion ; calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him ...
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... darkness visible - - 60 always used in this sense in Shakespeare and in Milton , and not ( as now ) as merely equivalent to ' saw . ' " Milton , however , appears to use ' witness ' once in the sense of ' see ' in Par . Lost , III . 700 ...
... darkness visible - - 60 always used in this sense in Shakespeare and in Milton , and not ( as now ) as merely equivalent to ' saw . ' " Milton , however , appears to use ' witness ' once in the sense of ' see ' in Par . Lost , III . 700 ...
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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...