Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page xxi
... language , downward . The measuring - line is from the centre to the utmost limit of the Starry Universe . To one who has received , as had Milton , some idea through the telescope of the im- mense distance of the nearest stars , this ...
... language , downward . The measuring - line is from the centre to the utmost limit of the Starry Universe . To one who has received , as had Milton , some idea through the telescope of the im- mense distance of the nearest stars , this ...
Page xxv
... language , the position of extremes , is also natural and proper . The explorations of the four bands tended to dissipate any hope which the fallen spirits may have conceived of becoming inured to the fierce flames of their habitation ...
... language , the position of extremes , is also natural and proper . The explorations of the four bands tended to dissipate any hope which the fallen spirits may have conceived of becoming inured to the fierce flames of their habitation ...
Page xxvi
... 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 into Chaos . In this grand division of the Universe there is an absence of ...
... 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 into Chaos . In this grand division of the Universe there is an absence of ...
Page xxxii
... keys in the epical organ - pipes of our various language that have never since felt the strain of such pre- vailing breath . PARADISE LOST . SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS . To insure systematic xxxii INTRODUCTION . Lowell's.
... keys in the epical organ - pipes of our various language that have never since felt the strain of such pre- vailing breath . PARADISE LOST . SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS . To insure systematic xxxii INTRODUCTION . Lowell's.
Page xxxiv
... language characterized by grammatical purity or correct- ness ? by clearness or perspicuity ? by force or energy ? by elegance or beauty ? ) ( 7. What " figures of speech " are found ? Is the author happy in his use of figurative language ...
... language characterized by grammatical purity or correct- ness ? by clearness or perspicuity ? by force or energy ? by elegance or beauty ? ) ( 7. What " figures of speech " are found ? Is the author happy in his use of figurative language ...
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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...