Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vi
... throne of God . The throne is in the midst of Heaven , high on the sacred hill , lost in ineffable light . Around the hill is the vast plain clothed with flowers , watered by living streams among the trees of life , where on great days ...
... throne of God . The throne is in the midst of Heaven , high on the sacred hill , lost in ineffable light . Around the hill is the vast plain clothed with flowers , watered by living streams among the trees of life , where on great days ...
Page xv
... throne in worship , derive thence their nurture and their delight , and yet live dispersed through all the ranges and recesses of the region , leading severally their mighty lives and per- forming the behests of Deity , but organized ...
... throne in worship , derive thence their nurture and their delight , and yet live dispersed through all the ranges and recesses of the region , leading severally their mighty lives and per- forming the behests of Deity , but organized ...
Page xvi
... throne of the Almighty ; beside whom , imbosomed in bliss , sat the Divine Son . They had come to hear this divine decree : " Hear , all ye Angels , Progeny of Light , Thrones , Dominations , Princedoms , Virtues , Powers , Hear my ...
... throne of the Almighty ; beside whom , imbosomed in bliss , sat the Divine Son . They had come to hear this divine decree : " Hear , all ye Angels , Progeny of Light , Thrones , Dominations , Princedoms , Virtues , Powers , Hear my ...
Page xx
... throne and pavilion where CHAOS personified and NIGHT have their government . . . . After much farther flying , tacking , and steering , he at last reaches the upper confines of Chaos , where its substance seems thinner , so that he can ...
... throne and pavilion where CHAOS personified and NIGHT have their government . . . . After much farther flying , tacking , and steering , he at last reaches the upper confines of Chaos , where its substance seems thinner , so that he can ...
Page xxi
... throne of Heaven " * In a foot - note on this passage Masson adds , " Heaven or the Empyrean being necessarily represented in our diagram as of definite dimensions , instead of infinite or indefinite , the minuteness of this Mundane ...
... throne of Heaven " * In a foot - note on this passage Masson adds , " Heaven or the Empyrean being necessarily represented in our diagram as of definite dimensions , instead of infinite or indefinite , the minuteness of this Mundane ...
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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...