Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vii
... fire , a ' boiling ocean . ' Three vast regions of horror lie in concentric zones around it . First , a belt of fiery volcanic soil ; then , a moist region , through which , like an ocean stream , " Lethe , the river of oblivion , rolls ...
... fire , a ' boiling ocean . ' Three vast regions of horror lie in concentric zones around it . First , a belt of fiery volcanic soil ; then , a moist region , through which , like an ocean stream , " Lethe , the river of oblivion , rolls ...
Page xvi
... Fire , but only a vast pulp or welter of un- formed matter , in which all these lie tempestuously intermixed . Though the presence of Deity is there potentially too , it is still , as it were , actually retracted thence , as from a ...
... Fire , but only a vast pulp or welter of un- formed matter , in which all these lie tempestuously intermixed . Though the presence of Deity is there potentially too , it is still , as it were , actually retracted thence , as from a ...
Page xvii
... fires . But his purpose is not utterly to destroy them , -only to expel them from Heaven . Underneath their feet ... fire , sulphurous lake , plain , and mountain , and of all forms of fiery and icy torment . It is into this ...
... fires . But his purpose is not utterly to destroy them , -only to expel them from Heaven . Underneath their feet ... fire , sulphurous lake , plain , and mountain , and of all forms of fiery and icy torment . It is into this ...
Page xxii
... 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 fearful . It is also called " darkness visible ...
... 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 fearful . It is also called " darkness visible ...
Page xxiii
... fire . It is a fiery deluge fed with ever - burning sulphur ; " there are " floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , " " fiery waves , " “ liquid fire , " and " upper , nether , and surrounding fires . " But as this is a lake , it ...
... fire . It is a fiery deluge fed with ever - burning sulphur ; " there are " floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , " " fiery waves , " “ liquid fire , " and " upper , nether , and surrounding fires . " But as this is a lake , it ...
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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...