Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... Eternal Infinity , or between our created World and the immeasurable and inconceivable Universe of Pre - human Existence . So far as our World is concerned , the poem starts from that moment when our newly - created Earth , with all the ...
... Eternal Infinity , or between our created World and the immeasurable and inconceivable Universe of Pre - human Existence . So far as our World is concerned , the poem starts from that moment when our newly - created Earth , with all the ...
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... eternal wrath burning after them , and driving them still down , down , through Chaos , to the place prepared for them . The place prepared for them ! Yes , for now there is a modifica- tion in the map of Universal Space to suit the ...
... eternal wrath burning after them , and driving them still down , down , through Chaos , to the place prepared for them . The place prepared for them ! Yes , for now there is a modifica- tion in the map of Universal Space to suit the ...
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... eternal Wisdom , and gives to the language of the blessed that prompt eloquence and musical sweetness by which it is character- ized . She appears as the inspirer of the poetical language in versified portions of the Sacred Scripture ...
... eternal Wisdom , and gives to the language of the blessed that prompt eloquence and musical sweetness by which it is character- ized . She appears as the inspirer of the poetical language in versified portions of the Sacred Scripture ...
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... Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and all knowledge . ' Observe that he invokes .... the Holy Spirit to instruct ; the Muse to sing . Keightley suggests that in this double invocation Milton had in view something similar ...
... Eternal Spirit that can enrich with all utterance and all knowledge . ' Observe that he invokes .... the Holy Spirit to instruct ; the Muse to sing . Keightley suggests that in this double invocation Milton had in view something similar ...
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... eternal providence , And justify the ways of God to men . 66 20 20 25 temple of God ? " 1 Cor . iii . 16. - 19 . Instruct me , etc. See note on 1. 17 . For thou knowest . So in Theocritus , Idyl , xxii . 116 , eiπè leá , où yàp olσba ...
... eternal providence , And justify the ways of God to men . 66 20 20 25 temple of God ? " 1 Cor . iii . 16. - 19 . Instruct me , etc. See note on 1. 17 . For thou knowest . So in Theocritus , Idyl , xxii . 116 , eiπè leá , où yàp olσba ...
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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...