Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... speak of it as involving " " Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . " It is , in short , a poetical representation , on the authority of hints from the Book of Genesis and other parts of the Bible , of the his- torical connection ...
... speak of it as involving " " Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . " It is , in short , a poetical representation , on the authority of hints from the Book of Genesis and other parts of the Bible , of the his- torical connection ...
Page xxiii
... speak- ing , of oceanic extent . Into this pool the four rivers , Phlegethon , Acheron , Styx , and Cocytus , disgorge their baleful streams . Towards the sources of these rivers , which the imagination at once fixes in the direction of ...
... speak- ing , of oceanic extent . Into this pool the four rivers , Phlegethon , Acheron , Styx , and Cocytus , disgorge their baleful streams . Towards the sources of these rivers , which the imagination at once fixes in the direction of ...
Page xxv
... speaks of the fierce extremes of heat and cold which the devils in Hell are doomed to suffer : " Then cometh ere dawn The eastern wind , Frost bitter - cold , Ever fire or dart ; Some hard torment They must have . ” The means of torture ...
... speaks of the fierce extremes of heat and cold which the devils in Hell are doomed to suffer : " Then cometh ere dawn The eastern wind , Frost bitter - cold , Ever fire or dart ; Some hard torment They must have . ” The means of torture ...
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... speaks of the argument ' of his ' afflicted stile . ' See Hamlet , III . ii . 149 , " Have you heard the argument of the play ? " 1 Henry IV . , II . iv . 310 , " The argument shall be thy running away . " 25 , 26. Milton , then , had a ...
... speaks of the argument ' of his ' afflicted stile . ' See Hamlet , III . ii . 149 , " Have you heard the argument of the play ? " 1 Henry IV . , II . iv . 310 , " The argument shall be thy running away . " 25 , 26. Milton , then , had a ...
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... , the unconquered or unconquerable . It is used of the hardest metal . Hesiod speaks of ' hearts of adamant . ' So Zechariah vii . 12 , " They made their hearts as Nine times the space that measures day and night 50 PARADISE LOST . 13.
... , the unconquered or unconquerable . It is used of the hardest metal . Hesiod speaks of ' hearts of adamant . ' So Zechariah vii . 12 , " They made their hearts as Nine times the space that measures day and night 50 PARADISE LOST . 13.
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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...