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... angels , and pauses to await their applause . Unexpected- ly , however , Satan and the devils feel themselves transformed into serpents , and then are led by " a great power " to a nearby grove , where they reenact the temptation by ...
... angels , and pauses to await their applause . Unexpected- ly , however , Satan and the devils feel themselves transformed into serpents , and then are led by " a great power " to a nearby grove , where they reenact the temptation by ...
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... angels relies on Ovid's use of forma : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness , nor appear'd Less then Arch Angel ruind , and th'excess Of Glory ...
... angels relies on Ovid's use of forma : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness , nor appear'd Less then Arch Angel ruind , and th'excess Of Glory ...
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... angels in Book X. The Miltonic narrator prefaces his description of the angels ' metamorphosis into the dimensions of dwarfs with an exclamation reminiscent of the Ovidian narrator : " Behold a wonder ! " Wonder , as Tasso described it ...
... angels in Book X. The Miltonic narrator prefaces his description of the angels ' metamorphosis into the dimensions of dwarfs with an exclamation reminiscent of the Ovidian narrator : " Behold a wonder ! " Wonder , as Tasso described it ...
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