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" HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold... "
Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ... - Page 25
by John Milton, Edward Young - 1848
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...by Chaos, the power of that place, to the sight of this new world which he sought. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings harbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and from despair...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitrcss. Book \. Line 78i. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. Book ii. Line i. Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us. Bookl\....
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Stewart's Quarterly, Volume 3

1869 - 514 pages
...consultation or deliberation which took place in those halla of legislation, where High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat ; But all this allows the poet to make that nice discrimination which he has done among the chiefs...
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Our Boys and Girls, Volumes 7-8

Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pages
...of Paradise Lost opens with a description of a scene in Pandemonium. There, — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." The "barbaric pearl and gold," we are told, is an allusion to the old Eastern ceremony of powdering...
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Outlines of elocution and correct reading

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Elocution - 1870 - 104 pages
...shadow, and continueth not. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. * A monotone in the strict sense cannot be properly included under the head of Inflection, which from...
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The illustrated public school speaker and reader based on grammatical ...

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...shadow, and continueth not. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormuz and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marbled heads, To bear...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 pages
...and orotund quality : — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Omius and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." What has been said thus far, relates wholly to preparatory training in the elements of elocution. I...
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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...INFERNAL COUNCIL. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,1 Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers...pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high,...
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The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by ..., Issue 322

John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...by Chaos, the power of that place, to the sight of this new world which he sought. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric riearl and gold, B Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and, from despair Thus...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 42

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1871 - 970 pages
...Those poets, indeed, in fond imagination and prophetic vision, behold their town "High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers ou her kings barbaric pearl aud gold." Perhaps it is the Mongolian incursion which has so stimulated...
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