Selections from Paradise lost: with notes, by R. DemausOliver & Boyd, 1857 - 180 pages |
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... according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining . To these Satan directs his speech , comforts them with hope yet of regaining heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world , and a new kind of creature to ...
... according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining . To these Satan directs his speech , comforts them with hope yet of regaining heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world , and a new kind of creature to ...
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... according to God's instructions , takes Adam up to a high hill , and shows him in vision the history of his descendants till the time of the Flood . In the twelfth book , Michael narrates to Adam the history of man from the flood to the ...
... according to God's instructions , takes Adam up to a high hill , and shows him in vision the history of his descendants till the time of the Flood . In the twelfth book , Michael narrates to Adam the history of man from the flood to the ...
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... According to the opinions of modern travellers , Horeb is the general name for the range of which Sinai is the most prominent summit . 8. That shepherd . Moses is of course referred to . The invo- cation of the muse who inspired Moses ...
... According to the opinions of modern travellers , Horeb is the general name for the range of which Sinai is the most prominent summit . 8. That shepherd . Moses is of course referred to . The invo- cation of the muse who inspired Moses ...
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... according to the ancient poets , of the muses . By a flight above the Aonian mount , Milton means the celebration in poetry of subjects of a far more elevated character than those which had been sung by the poets , who pretended to ...
... according to the ancient poets , of the muses . By a flight above the Aonian mount , Milton means the celebration in poetry of subjects of a far more elevated character than those which had been sung by the poets , who pretended to ...
Page 99
... The appearance of hell , according to Milton's idea of it , is more particularly described in the second book . It is there represented as an enormous dungeon " vaulted with fire , " encompassed with walls , and with NOTES TO BOOK I. 99 69.
... The appearance of hell , according to Milton's idea of it , is more particularly described in the second book . It is there represented as an enormous dungeon " vaulted with fire , " encompassed with walls , and with NOTES TO BOOK I. 99 69.
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according Adam and Eve Adam's allusion Almighty Ammonite ancient Argob beasts Beelzebub behold Belial bliss BOOK brute burning lake call'd called chaos cherubim classical sense darkness death deep delight divine dread earth Egypt envy eternal ev'ning Eve's evil fair fall fear fire fix'd flow'rs fruit garden Genesis glory God's goddess gods gold Greek guile happy hast hath heav'n hell hence hill Imaüs imitation Jupiter king knowledge labour lest Libya light lost Mammon means Milton mind Moloch moon morning Mozambic night note on line o'er Ormus Osiris pain Paradise Paradise Lost pass'd passage perhaps Phlegra poem poet pow'r praise rais'd reason rebel angels refers river roses round Satan says Scripture seat seem'd Serapis serpent shade song spake spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence things thou thought throne tree turn'd vex'd voice wand'ring wind word worse worship
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Page 6 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support...
Page 64 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 10 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 52 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 14 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 83 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 8 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 57 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 31 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success...