Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... heaven is like earth . " What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven , and things therein Each to other like , more than on earth is thought ? " • To use Brooke's eloquent description in his incomparable Milton Primer , " Heaven is on ...
... heaven is like earth . " What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven , and things therein Each to other like , more than on earth is thought ? " • To use Brooke's eloquent description in his incomparable Milton Primer , " Heaven is on ...
Page vii
... Heaven's highth , and with the centre mix the pole . ' Clearly , if heaven has sharp , rigid outlines like the moon , chaos has a shifting , tumultuous surface like the sun . Deep in this tremendous abyss lies Hell , perhaps near the ...
... Heaven's highth , and with the centre mix the pole . ' Clearly , if heaven has sharp , rigid outlines like the moon , chaos has a shifting , tumultuous surface like the sun . Deep in this tremendous abyss lies Hell , perhaps near the ...
Page viii
... Heaven . At its very zenith a bright sea flows as of liquid pearl , from which a mighty structure of stairs leads up to Heaven's gate . Over against the stairs a passage down to the earth opens into the hollow sphere . " * From the ...
... Heaven . At its very zenith a bright sea flows as of liquid pearl , from which a mighty structure of stairs leads up to Heaven's gate . Over against the stairs a passage down to the earth opens into the hollow sphere . " * From the ...
Page xiv
... HEAVEN , or the EMPYREAN - a boundless unimaginable region of Light , Freedom , Happiness , and - * We give but one of Masson's diagrams , the last of his three . His first is simply a circle , with a diameter drawn horizontally through ...
... HEAVEN , or the EMPYREAN - a boundless unimaginable region of Light , Freedom , Happiness , and - * We give but one of Masson's diagrams , the last of his three . His first is simply a circle , with a diameter drawn horizontally through ...
Page xv
... Heaven is said symbolically , and in order to make conceivable by the human imagination what in its own nature is inconceivable ; but , this being explained , he is bold enough in his use of terrestrial analogies . Round the immediate ...
... Heaven is said symbolically , and in order to make conceivable by the human imagination what in its own nature is inconceivable ; but , this being explained , he is bold enough in his use of terrestrial analogies . Round the immediate ...
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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...