Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page xiii
... Death into the world and all our woe , With loss of Eden . " This is a true description , for the whole story bears on this point . But it is the vast comprehension of the story , both in space and time , as leading to this point , that ...
... Death into the world and all our woe , With loss of Eden . " This is a true description , for the whole story bears on this point . But it is the vast comprehension of the story , both in space and time , as leading to this point , that ...
Page xxiv
... death , had occupied himself with giving particular descriptions of small spaces and recording measurements in feet and inches . He has , however , made a map of the four grand divisions which is more vague and indefinite than Dante's ...
... death , had occupied himself with giving particular descriptions of small spaces and recording measurements in feet and inches . He has , however , made a map of the four grand divisions which is more vague and indefinite than Dante's ...
Page xxvi
... Death have shaken Hell had he been in the air and not on the ground ? All the language implies that the gates stood in a perpen- dicular and did not lie in a horizontal wall . . . Through the gates thrown open by sin , Satan passes out ...
... Death have shaken Hell had he been in the air and not on the ground ? All the language implies that the gates stood in a perpen- dicular and did not lie in a horizontal wall . . . Through the gates thrown open by sin , Satan passes out ...
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... The origin of evil , a problem of universal and never - failing interest , is here suggested . Like Homer , but unlike Virgil and Tasso , Milton combines the announcement of Brought death into the world , and all our woe.
... The origin of evil , a problem of universal and never - failing interest , is here suggested . Like Homer , but unlike Virgil and Tasso , Milton combines the announcement of Brought death into the world , and all our woe.
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... death , mortalis , subject to death ; mortalis in ecclesiastical Lat . means deadly , which is said to be the sense of mortal in this line . But is it likely that Milton repeats the notion of death - bringing ? May ' mortal taste ' mean ...
... death , mortalis , subject to death ; mortalis in ecclesiastical Lat . means deadly , which is said to be the sense of mortal in this line . But is it likely that Milton repeats the notion of death - bringing ? May ' mortal taste ' mean ...
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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...