Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... hill , lost in ineffable light . Around the hill is the vast plain clothed with flowers , watered by living streams among the trees of life , where on great days the angelic assem- bly meets ; and nearer to the hill is the pavement like ...
... hill , lost in ineffable light . Around the hill is the vast plain clothed with flowers , watered by living streams among the trees of life , where on great days the angelic assem- bly meets ; and nearer to the hill is the pavement like ...
Page xv
... hill , and valley , whereon the myriads of the Sons of God expatiate , in their two orders of Seraphim and Cherubim , and in their descending ranks as Arch- angels or Chiefs , Princes of various degrees , and individual Powers and ...
... hill , and valley , whereon the myriads of the Sons of God expatiate , in their two orders of Seraphim and Cherubim , and in their descending ranks as Arch- angels or Chiefs , Princes of various degrees , and individual Powers and ...
Page xvi
... hill Him have anointed , whom ye now behold At my right hand . Your Head I him appoint , And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven , and shall confess him Lord . " - - With joy and obedience is this decree received ...
... hill Him have anointed , whom ye now behold At my right hand . Your Head I him appoint , And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven , and shall confess him Lord . " - - With joy and obedience is this decree received ...
Page 6
... hill and Siloa's brook , Milton calls upon a far loftier muse than " Dame Memory and her siren daughters . " In the beginning of the seventh book he names her Urania ( i . e . the heavenly one ) , but he is careful to prevent her from ...
... hill and Siloa's brook , Milton calls upon a far loftier muse than " Dame Memory and her siren daughters . " In the beginning of the seventh book he names her Urania ( i . e . the heavenly one ) , but he is careful to prevent her from ...
Page 7
... hill I soar , Above the flight of Pegasean wing . The meaning , not the name , I call . " 7 " By this Muse , " says Keightley , " he probably means the genius and charac- ter , the divinely animated power , of the Hebrew poetry , as ...
... hill I soar , Above the flight of Pegasean wing . The meaning , not the name , I call . " 7 " By this Muse , " says Keightley , " he probably means the genius and charac- ter , the divinely animated power , of the Hebrew poetry , as ...
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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...