Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... 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 a sea of jasper . Beyond ...
... 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 a sea of jasper . Beyond ...
Page vii
... light of God by three times the radius of our starry universe . * In the centre of hell is the lake of fire , a ' boiling ocean . ' Three vast regions of horror lie in concentric zones around it . First , a belt of fiery volcanic soil ...
... light of God by three times the radius of our starry universe . * In the centre of hell is the lake of fire , a ' boiling ocean . ' Three vast regions of horror lie in concentric zones around it . First , a belt of fiery volcanic soil ...
Page viii
... light on that side of it which is turned to 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 ...
... light on that side of it which is turned to 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 ...
Page xiv
... 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 it . The second is the same circle , with its diameter , and ...
... 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 it . The second is the same circle , with its diameter , and ...
Page xv
... lifelessness , wherein are jumbled in blustering confusion the elements of all matter , or rather the crude embryons of all the elements , ere as yet they are distinguishable . There is no light there , INTRODUCTION . XV.
... lifelessness , wherein are jumbled in blustering confusion the elements of all matter , or rather the crude embryons of all the elements , ere as yet they are distinguishable . There is no light there , INTRODUCTION . XV.
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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...