Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... things therein Each to other like , more than on earth is thought ? " • To use Brooke's eloquent description in his incomparable Milton Primer , " Heaven is on high , indefinitely extended , and walled towards Chaos with a crystal wall ...
... things therein Each to other like , more than on earth is thought ? " • To use Brooke's eloquent description in his incomparable Milton Primer , " Heaven is on high , indefinitely extended , and walled towards Chaos with a crystal wall ...
Page viii
... things , fitness of pauses to thought , a strong grasp of the main idea while other ideas play round it , power of digression without loss of the power to return , equality of power over vast spaces of imagination , sustained splendor ...
... things , fitness of pauses to thought , a strong grasp of the main idea while other ideas play round it , power of digression without loss of the power to return , equality of power over vast spaces of imagination , sustained splendor ...
Page xiii
... 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 between Human Time and ...
... 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 between Human Time and ...
Page xxii
... thing , a learned commentator , Bishop Newton , and others through him , have been led grievously astray . He says , “ It is observable that Homer makes the seat of Hell as far beneath the deepest pit of Earth as the Heaven is above the ...
... thing , a learned commentator , Bishop Newton , and others through him , have been led grievously astray . He says , “ It is observable that Homer makes the seat of Hell as far beneath the deepest pit of Earth as the Heaven is above the ...
Page xxx
... things in Heaven , would not the temple devoted to all the demons be built by men under their inspiration after the pattern of things in Hell ? It is the more essential to observe such a fact because it helps to establish a very ...
... things in Heaven , would not the temple devoted to all the demons be built by men under their inspiration after the pattern of things in Hell ? It is the more essential to observe such a fact because it helps to establish a very ...
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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...