Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page viii
... 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 opens into the ...
... 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 opens into the ...
Page xiii
... consequently are , on this side of the pre - supposed Infinite Eternity , the main per- sons of the epic . But we are carried back into this pre - supposed Infinite Eternity ; and the grand purpose of the poem INTRODUCTION.
... consequently are , on this side of the pre - supposed Infinite Eternity , the main per- sons of the epic . But we are carried back into this pre - supposed Infinite Eternity ; and the grand purpose of the poem INTRODUCTION.
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... side many legions of angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of heaven , with all his crew , into the great deep . Which action passed over , the poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan with his angels now ...
... side many legions of angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of heaven , with all his crew , into the great deep . Which action passed over , the poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan with his angels now ...
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... sides round As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible - - 60 always used in this sense in Shakespeare and in Milton , and not ( as now ) as merely equivalent to ' saw . ' " Milton ...
... sides round As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible - - 60 always used in this sense in Shakespeare and in Milton , and not ( as now ) as merely equivalent to ' saw . ' " Milton ...
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... side , One next himself in power , and next in crime , In Eden , distance inexpressible By numbers that have name . " Evidently it was far enough . 75 See in the Introduction the diagrams illustrating Milton's conception of the ...
... side , One next himself in power , and next in crime , In Eden , distance inexpressible By numbers that have name . " Evidently it was far enough . 75 See in the Introduction the diagrams illustrating Milton's conception of the ...
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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...