Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... suggests that in this double invocation Milton had in view something similar in Fletcher's Purple Island ( VI . 25 ) . In Job xxxii . 8 , we read , " But there is a spirit in man ; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them ...
... suggests that in this double invocation Milton had in view something similar in Fletcher's Purple Island ( VI . 25 ) . In Job xxxii . 8 , we read , " But there is a spirit in man ; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them ...
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... 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 instance , and that twenty or twenty - five years before ! especially as Milton is in ...
... 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 instance , and that twenty or twenty - five years before ! especially as Milton is in ...
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... suggests , in Walker's History of Independency ( 1648 ) , I. 14 , " Their burning zeal with- out knowledge is like hell - fire without light " ; also , Heywood's description of hell , " Burns , but wastes not , and adds to darkness ...
... suggests , in Walker's History of Independency ( 1648 ) , I. 14 , " Their burning zeal with- out knowledge is like hell - fire without light " ; also , Heywood's description of hell , " Burns , but wastes not , and adds to darkness ...
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... suggests the aspiring ambition of Satan . 90. Now misery hath joined . Supply whom ? or thee ? What is the conclusion of the sentence beginning with if , lines 84 and 87 ? Bentley points out the similarity of the passage to Ovid , Met ...
... suggests the aspiring ambition of Satan . 90. Now misery hath joined . Supply whom ? or thee ? What is the conclusion of the sentence beginning with if , lines 84 and 87 ? Bentley points out the similarity of the passage to Ovid , Met ...
Page 26
... suggests that it may be from Teiparǹs , a pirate ! Night - foundered ( Fr. fondre , to sink ; to founder is to be filled with water and sick as a ship ) , sunk into darkness . This - Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , 26 ...
... suggests that it may be from Teiparǹs , a pirate ! Night - foundered ( Fr. fondre , to sink ; to founder is to be filled with water and sick as a ship ) , sunk into darkness . This - Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , 26 ...
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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...