The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes & Company, 1850 |
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Page 87
... gates ; three folds were brass , Three iron , three of adamantine rock , 645 Yet unconsumed . Before the gates there sat Impenetrable , impaled with circling fire , 636. As when , & c .: Satan , towering high , is here compared to a ...
... gates ; three folds were brass , Three iron , three of adamantine rock , 645 Yet unconsumed . Before the gates there sat Impenetrable , impaled with circling fire , 636. As when , & c .: Satan , towering high , is here compared to a ...
Page 98
... gates is highly poetical , and now of the opening of the gates . There is a harshness in the sound of the words , that happily corresponds to the meaning con- veyed , or to the fact described . This correspondence of the sound of the ...
... gates is highly poetical , and now of the opening of the gates . There is a harshness in the sound of the words , that happily corresponds to the meaning con- veyed , or to the fact described . This correspondence of the sound of the ...
Page 215
... gate , & c .: This passage contrasts beautifully in sound with that which describes the gates of Hell , Book II . 879-83 . See Ho- mer's Iliad , v . 749 . Raphael's departure from before the throne and his flight through the choirs of ...
... gate , & c .: This passage contrasts beautifully in sound with that which describes the gates of Hell , Book II . 879-83 . See Ho- mer's Iliad , v . 749 . Raphael's departure from before the throne and his flight through the choirs of ...
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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