Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page xiv
... phrase is , of course , self - contradictory , but it is neces- sary divided into two hemispheres . The upper of these two hemispheres of primeval Infinity is HEAVEN , or the EMPYREAN - a boundless unimaginable region of Light , Freedom ...
... phrase is , of course , self - contradictory , but it is neces- sary divided into two hemispheres . The upper of these two hemispheres of primeval Infinity is HEAVEN , or the EMPYREAN - a boundless unimaginable region of Light , Freedom ...
Page xxii
... phrases , such as " outer darkness " and " the lake that burns with fire and brim- stone . " The darkness is called " utter " by Milton to distinguish it both in quality and place from " middle or chaotic darkness , as further from ...
... phrases , such as " outer darkness " and " the lake that burns with fire and brim- stone . " The darkness is called " utter " by Milton to distinguish it both in quality and place from " middle or chaotic darkness , as further from ...
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... phrase modifies what ? -10 . Rose out of chaos ( Gr . χάος , fr . χάσκω , χαίνω , to open wide , to yawn ; χάος , vast , yawning abyss , gulf , or chasm ) . So in Par . Lost , III . 12 , " The rising world of waters ' is represented as ...
... phrase modifies what ? -10 . Rose out of chaos ( Gr . χάος , fr . χάσκω , χαίνω , to open wide , to yawn ; χάος , vast , yawning abyss , gulf , or chasm ) . So in Par . Lost , III . 12 , " The rising world of waters ' is represented as ...
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... phrase , is utterly pre- posterous . " Rhime is Milton's spelling here , and as he uses rime in his prefatory remarks on the verse , it is supposed that the two spellings indicate different meanings ; rime ( rhyme ' in modern ...
... phrase , is utterly pre- posterous . " Rhime is Milton's spelling here , and as he uses rime in his prefatory remarks on the verse , it is supposed that the two spellings indicate different meanings ; rime ( rhyme ' in modern ...
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... phrase in a document of the Long Parliament in 1642. Mr. Keightley , accordingly , suggests that the phrase may have been a popular one about that time . " Mr. Keightley has a rather slender foundation for his conjecture ; a single ...
... phrase in a document of the Long Parliament in 1642. Mr. Keightley , accordingly , suggests that the phrase may have been a popular one about that time . " Mr. Keightley has a rather slender foundation for his conjecture ; a single ...
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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...