Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... space , during the cycles of past eternity , lay that vast aggregation of matter which constituted the luminous Empyreal Heavens above and the black abysses of Chaos beneath . He tells us that heaven is like earth . " What if earth Be ...
... space , during the cycles of past eternity , lay that vast aggregation of matter which constituted the luminous Empyreal Heavens above and the black abysses of Chaos beneath . He tells us that heaven is like earth . " What if earth Be ...
Page viii
... equality of power over vast spaces of imagination , sustained splendor when he soars · · With plume so strong , so equal and so soft , ' * Brooke's Milton Primer , p . 86 . a majesty in the conduct of thought , and a viii PREFACE .
... equality of power over vast spaces of imagination , sustained splendor when he soars · · With plume so strong , so equal and so soft , ' * Brooke's Milton Primer , p . 86 . a majesty in the conduct of thought , and a viii PREFACE .
Page xiii
... space and time , as leading to this point , that makes it unique among epics , and entitles Milton to speak of it as involving " " Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . " It is , in short , a poetical representation , on the ...
... space and time , as leading to this point , that makes it unique among epics , and entitles Milton to speak of it as involving " " Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . " It is , in short , a poetical representation , on the ...
Page xiv
... space to his own nature and wins possession of it for a season . The attention of the reader is particularly requested to the following remarks and diagrams . * The diagrams are not mere illustrations of what Milton may have conceived ...
... space to his own nature and wins possession of it for a season . The attention of the reader is particularly requested to the following remarks and diagrams . * The diagrams are not mere illustrations of what Milton may have conceived ...
Page xvii
... Space to suit the changed condition of the Universe . At the bottom of what has hitherto been Chaos there is now marked out a kind of Antarctic region , distinct from the body of Chaos proper . This is HELL - a vast region of fire ...
... Space to suit the changed condition of the Universe . At the bottom of what has hitherto been Chaos there is now marked out a kind of Antarctic region , distinct from the body of Chaos proper . This is HELL - a vast region of fire ...
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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...