...and colouring, J Part IV. sect. 14, 18, 18. he has finished the portrait of the king of terrours : -The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that...that shadow seem'd ; For each seem'd either; black he stood as nieht ; Fierce as ten furies ; terrible as hell j And shook a deadly dart. What seem'd...

...in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed cither; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kindly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat...

...war, " Hurling defiance toward the vault of heaven." " The other shape, " If shape it might be called, that shape had none " Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; " Or substance might be called that shadow seem'd, " For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, " Fierce as ten furies,...

...finished the portrait of the King of Terrors. * The other shape, — If shape it might be called, which shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb : Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, — . For each seemed either ; black he stood as night ; Fierce as ten furies...

...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3) As we can see, these eight...

...colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable, in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible...

...bark'd and howl'd Within unseen. Far less abhorr'd than these Vex'd Scylla bathing in the Sea . . . The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that...Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook like a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a Kingly Crown had on. (PL 2.648-60, 666-73,...

...produced by huge indeterminacies - Burke cites Milton's description of Death in Paradise Last (1674): The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that...seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night. (2.666-7o) Shelley's Demogorgon, Yeats's mummies, imitate this rhetoric of pure reverberation, nothing-defining....

...Milton's Paradise Lost, a commonplace of eighteenth-century discussions of the sublime (Knapp 52): The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that...seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night. (II. 666-70) Then Coleridge concludes, The grandest efforts of poetry are where the imagination is...

...Spirit. (II. iv. 2-7) This description, if that is what it can be called, recalls Death in Paradise Lost: The other shape — If shape it might be call'd that...seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night137 In its consciously calling attention to indescribability, however, it is Paradise Lost as...