The Paradise Lost: With Notes, Explanatory and CriticalA.S. Barnes & Company, 1850 |
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Page 176
... less fair , Less winning soft , less amiably mild , 475 Than that smooth wat'ry image . Back I turn'd : 480 Thou following cry'dst aloud , " Return , fair Eve ; Whom fly'st thou ? whom thou fly'st , of him thou art ; His flesh , his ...
... less fair , Less winning soft , less amiably mild , 475 Than that smooth wat'ry image . Back I turn'd : 480 Thou following cry'dst aloud , " Return , fair Eve ; Whom fly'st thou ? whom thou fly'st , of him thou art ; His flesh , his ...
Page 181
... less volubil earth The second syllable is long ; when short , Milton spelled it voluble , as in IX . 436 Less voluble , means rolling less . It required less motion for the earth to move from west to east , upon its own axis , according ...
... less volubil earth The second syllable is long ; when short , Milton spelled it voluble , as in IX . 436 Less voluble , means rolling less . It required less motion for the earth to move from west to east , upon its own axis , according ...
Page 196
... Less pain , less to be fled ? or thou than they Less hardy to endure ? Courageous Chief , 920 The first in flight from pain , hadst thou alleged To thy deserted host this cause of flight , Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive . To ...
... Less pain , less to be fled ? or thou than they Less hardy to endure ? Courageous Chief , 920 The first in flight from pain , hadst thou alleged To thy deserted host this cause of flight , Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive . To ...
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