The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes & Company, 1850 |
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... ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon , he refers to a full ...
... ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon , he refers to a full ...
Page 268
... ancient poets , and of Homer in particular . I was certainly a very bold thought in our author to ascribe the first use of artillery to the rebel angels . But as such a pernicious invention may be well supposed to have proceeded from ...
... ancient poets , and of Homer in particular . I was certainly a very bold thought in our author to ascribe the first use of artillery to the rebel angels . But as such a pernicious invention may be well supposed to have proceeded from ...
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... ancient pair 5 10 1. Repentant stood , & c .: Milton has shown a wonderful art in describing that variety of passions which arise in our first parents upon the breach of the commandment that had been given them . We see them gradually ...
... ancient pair 5 10 1. Repentant stood , & c .: Milton has shown a wonderful art in describing that variety of passions which arise in our first parents upon the breach of the commandment that had been given them . We see them gradually ...
Contents
Apostrophe to Light | 1 |
The intercession of the Son of God in their behalf | 22 |
The Almighty Father surveying the whole creation | 118 |
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Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Alcinous allusion ancient angels appear'd battle beast beautiful Beelzebub behold bliss Book bright call'd called celestial Chaos Cherubim cloud created creation creatures darkness death deep delight described divine dread earth eternal ev'ning evil expression fabled fair fallen fallen angels Father fire flow'rs fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hast hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell Hesiod Homer Iliad imagination infernal Jupiter King light live mankind means Messiah Milton mind Moloch moon nature Newton night o'er Ophion Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage poem poet poetical poetry pow'r reader return'd round sacred sapience Satan says Scripture seem'd sense serpent sight spake speech spirit stars stood sublime supposed sweet taste thee thence things thou thought throne tree turn'd Virg Virgil whence winds wings word