Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page xxxi
... look- ing down on a marrow - bone . In fact , such is the metrical skill of the man , and such the perfection of his metrical sensibility , that , on any attempt to take liberties with a passage of his , you feel as when coming in a ...
... look- ing down on a marrow - bone . In fact , such is the metrical skill of the man , and such the perfection of his metrical sensibility , that , on any attempt to take liberties with a passage of his , you feel as when coming in a ...
Page 13
... look so far for the meaning ? See Rev. ix . 1 , 2 ; xx . 1 , 3 , for the phrase ' bottomless pit .'- -48 . Adaman- tine ( a negative or privative ; daμáw , to conquer ; àdáμas , the unconquered or unconquerable . It is used of the ...
... look so far for the meaning ? See Rev. ix . 1 , 2 ; xx . 1 , 3 , for the phrase ' bottomless pit .'- -48 . Adaman- tine ( a negative or privative ; daμáw , to conquer ; àdáμas , the unconquered or unconquerable . It is used of the ...
Page 44
... looks Downcast and damp ; yet such wherein appeared Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their chief Not in despair , to have found themselves not lost In loss itself ; which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue . But he , his ...
... looks Downcast and damp ; yet such wherein appeared Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their chief Not in despair , to have found themselves not lost In loss itself ; which on his countenance cast Like doubtful hue . But he , his ...
Page 48
... Looks through the horizontal misty air , Shorn of his beams , or , from behind the moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs . Darkened so , yet shone Above them ...
... Looks through the horizontal misty air , Shorn of his beams , or , from behind the moon , In dim eclipse , disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations , and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs . Darkened so , yet shone Above them ...
Page 52
... looks and thoughts Were always downward bent , admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement , trodden gold , Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific . By him first Men also , and by his suggestion taught , Ransacked ...
... looks and thoughts Were always downward bent , admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement , trodden gold , Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific . By him first Men also , and by his suggestion taught , Ransacked ...
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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...