Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vii
... perhaps near the centre , possibly at the nadir ; distant , at any rate , from the 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 ...
... perhaps near the centre , possibly at the nadir ; distant , at any rate , from the 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 ...
Page xiii
... perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to them , the song is to be " Of man's first ...
... perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to them , the song is to be " Of man's first ...
Page xxviii
... perhaps , we ought to say that according to Milton's con- ception the former is the archetype after which the latter was made . Standing at a little distance , the fallen spirits could see it " Built like a temple , where pilasters ...
... perhaps , we ought to say that according to Milton's con- ception the former is the archetype after which the latter was made . Standing at a little distance , the fallen spirits could see it " Built like a temple , where pilasters ...
Page xxxi
... attempt to take liberties with a passage of his , you feel as when coming in a forest upon what seems a dead lion ; perhaps he may not be dead , but only sleeping ! nay , INTRODUCTION . xxxi Quarterly Review's Critical Comments De ...
... attempt to take liberties with a passage of his , you feel as when coming in a forest upon what seems a dead lion ; perhaps he may not be dead , but only sleeping ! nay , INTRODUCTION . xxxi Quarterly Review's Critical Comments De ...
Page xxxii
... perhaps he may not be sleep- ing , but only shamming ! You have a jealousy , as to Milton , even in the most flagrant case of almost palpable error , that , after all , there may be a plot in it ! [ From Lowell's Among My Books , Vol ...
... perhaps he may not be sleep- ing , but only shamming ! You have a jealousy , as to Milton , even in the most flagrant case of almost palpable error , that , after all , there may be a plot in it ! [ From Lowell's Among My Books , Vol ...
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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...