Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... thee more , and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God , I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues IC 15 Chosen seed . Deut . iv ...
... thee more , and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God , I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues IC 15 Chosen seed . Deut . iv ...
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... 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 . i . 351. — 91–93 . This passage is wonderfully condensed , " Thou , being fallen from ...
... 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 . i . 351. — 91–93 . This passage is wonderfully condensed , " Thou , being fallen from ...
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... thee . " — 140. Returns , and therefore will return to us . Keightley . — 141. Extinct . Supply ' be . ' Glory is brightness , and it is extinguished as a flame is put out . ( Lat . ex , out , and sti [ n ] guĕre , to prick , scratch ...
... thee . " — 140. Returns , and therefore will return to us . Keightley . — 141. Extinct . Supply ' be . ' Glory is brightness , and it is extinguished as a flame is put out . ( Lat . ex , out , and sti [ n ] guĕre , to prick , scratch ...
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... thee in a shower of gold , and hail rich pearls upon thee . " Shakes . Ant . and Cleop . II . 5. A ceremony at coronations in Tartary and Persia . Barbaric ( Asiatic ) , an epithet of ' gold ' in Virg . Æn . II . 504. - 5 . Satan ...
... thee in a shower of gold , and hail rich pearls upon thee . " Shakes . Ant . and Cleop . II . 5. A ceremony at coronations in Tartary and Persia . Barbaric ( Asiatic ) , an epithet of ' gold ' in Virg . Æn . II . 504. - 5 . Satan ...
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... thee as a reality ; but thou wast , it would seem , enthralled to force " ( or ' enthralled to chance , ' ac- cording to another reading ) . — 554. So at the music of Orpheus in hell , the The thronging audience . In discourse more ...
... thee as a reality ; but thou wast , it would seem , enthralled to force " ( or ' enthralled to chance , ' ac- cording to another reading ) . — 554. So at the music of Orpheus in hell , the The thronging audience . In discourse more ...
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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...