Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... a roll of dactyls is made to settle , like the swell of the advancing tide , into the long thunder of billows breaking for leagues against the shore ! - - เ - - Say first for heaven hides nothing from thy view 10 PARADISE LOST .
... a roll of dactyls is made to settle , like the swell of the advancing tide , into the long thunder of billows breaking for leagues against the shore ! - - เ - - Say first for heaven hides nothing from thy view 10 PARADISE LOST .
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... Thunder . The thunder made a deep impression on Satan and his followers . How often they allude to it ! Is there any trace here of the notion in Shakespeare ( in Julius Cæsar , for instance ) of the thunder as a weapon separate from the ...
... Thunder . The thunder made a deep impression on Satan and his followers . How often they allude to it ! Is there any trace here of the notion in Shakespeare ( in Julius Cæsar , for instance ) of the thunder as a weapon separate from the ...
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... thunder , Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage , Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe ...
... thunder , Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage , Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe ...
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... thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free : the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure , and , in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to ...
... thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free : the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure , and , in my choice To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to ...
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... thunder , and to stunian , to stun ? ) , thunderstruck , bewildered , confounded . Oblivious , causing oblivion , stupefying . 267. Share . As colonists shared lands ? 268. Mansion A and especially on . ( manere , to remain ) , abiding ...
... thunder , and to stunian , to stun ? ) , thunderstruck , bewildered , confounded . Oblivious , causing oblivion , stupefying . 267. Share . As colonists shared lands ? 268. Mansion A and especially on . ( manere , to remain ) , abiding ...
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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...