The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes & Company, 1850 |
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Page 108
... appear , in comparison with the empyreal Heaven , no larger than the smallest star , and that star apparently yet smaller by its proximity to the moon ! How beautiful , and how poetical also , thus to open the scene by degrees ! Satan ...
... appear , in comparison with the empyreal Heaven , no larger than the smallest star , and that star apparently yet smaller by its proximity to the moon ! How beautiful , and how poetical also , thus to open the scene by degrees ! Satan ...
Page 269
... hills , the dawn first appearing over them , and they seeming to bring the rising day ; as the evening star is said likewise first to appear on his hill - top , VIII . 520.-N. Look'd round , and scouts each coast , light - BOOK VI . 269.
... hills , the dawn first appearing over them , and they seeming to bring the rising day ; as the evening star is said likewise first to appear on his hill - top , VIII . 520.-N. Look'd round , and scouts each coast , light - BOOK VI . 269.
Page 307
... appear . Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent , and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky : So high as heaved the tumid hills , so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep , Capacious ...
... appear . Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent , and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky : So high as heaved the tumid hills , so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep , Capacious ...
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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