Evil to others; and enraged might see
How all his malice served but to bring forth
Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy shewn
On man by him seduced; but on himself
Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured.
Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
His mighty stature; on each hand the flames,
Driven backward, slope their pointed spires, and,
rolled

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In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale.
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight
Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air,

225

That felt unusual weight; till on dry land
He lights; if it were land that ever burned
With solid, as the lake with liquid fire;

And such appeared in hue, as when the force

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4. Give the derivation and meaning of-1. huge; 2. permission; 3. dark; 4. reiterated; 5. malice; 6. seduced.

5. Heaven. Its derivation, and various meanings? What other word in the passage springs from the same root?

6. That with, &c. (214-5). Quote the passage of Scripture,

from which this is taken.

7. Night-foundered. Its meaning? Repeat the lines from 'Comus,' where it has the same meaning.

8. Distinguish between goodness, grace, and mercy; and between confusion, wrath, and vengeance.

1. Parse :

LINES 221-241.

I. from; 2. stature; 3. each; 4. backward; 5. rolled; 6. incumbent; 7. till; 8. lake; 9. such; 10. side; 11. whose; 12. all; 13. resting; 14. gods.

2. What part of speech is both, line 239? What is its construction? What kind of phrase is the one introduced by it? 3. What is the composition of forthwith? tion between its elements and its meaning. formed in the same way.

Shew the connecName other words

4. Give the derivation and meaning of-I. billows; 2. incumbent; 3. entrails; 4. conceiving; 5. sublimed; 6. smoke; 7. stench; 8. sole; 9. singed; 10. sufferance.

Of subterranean wind transports a hill
Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side
Of thundering Ætna, whose combustible
And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire,
Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds,
And leave a singed bottom all involved

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With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole
Of unblest feet! Him followed his next mate;
Both glorying to have 'scaped the Stygian flood,
As gods, and by their own recovered strength,
Not by the sufferance of supernal power.

240

"Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost archangel, "this the seat That we must change for heaven? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so! since he,

245

5. (1) Horrid vale. Why horrid? (2) Steers his flight. Give another instance of the word steer being applied to flight.

6. Explain the following expressions:-1. The flames slope their pointing spires'; 2. 'that felt unusual weight'; 3. 'sublimed with mineral fury.'

7. Where is Pelorus?

For what is it noted?

8. Where is Etna? What event in Milton's life-time would suggest the allusion in the passage?

9. The Stygian flood. To what does it refer? What was the Styx?

10. What are the two great divisions into which the lower regions are here divided? To what does the poet compare the colour of the land?

II. Lines 225-7. Repeat the passage in 'The Faery Queen' from which Milton seems to have borrowed this beautiful image.

12. Lines 191-241. Point out the elements of the terrible grandeur here ascribed to the fallen archangel. Wherein consists the beauty of the description?

1. Parse:

LINES 242-255.

1. this; 2. seat; 3. that; 4. change; 5. gloom; 6. be ; 7. since; 8. farthest; 9. whom; 10. force; 11. farewell; 12. hail; 13. thou; 14. receive; 15. one; 16. own. 2. Analyze the period, Be it so... equals, (245-9).

Who now is Sovran, can dispose and bid

What shall be right: farthest from him is best,
Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme
Above his equals. Farewell, happy fields,

Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail,

Infernal world! and thou, profoundest hell,
Receive thy new possessor! one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be,—all but less than he
Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built

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3, What kind of extensions are the phrases of heaven' and ' of hell'? What name is given to the second object of verbs like make?

4. Give the derivation and exact meaning of region, soil, clime, and seat.

5. What is the derivation of Sovran? Trace its history. What other word in this passage is derived from the same root? 6. Supreme above his equals. What is the meaning of this expression?

7. Of what is the word farewell made up? What are the different meanings of fare? Which of the meanings has it here? Name other words used at parting; and give their derivation or composition.

8. What is the derivation of hail? Give the other forms of the word.

9. Give the derivation and meaning of I. since; 2. farthest ; 3. equals; 4. happy; 5. infernal; 6. profoundest; 7. possessor; 8. heaven; 9. disposed.

10. The mind is its own place. What sect held this opinion? How has Milton treated it by putting it into the mouth of Satan?

I. Parse:

LINES 256-270.

I. what; 2. all; 3. but; 4. hence; 5. secure; 6. ambition; 7. better; 8. wherefore; 9. let; 10. friends; 11. lie; 12. call; 13. more.

2. What other reading have some editions instead of all but?

Here for his envy;
will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
The associates and copartners of our loss,
Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool,
And call them not to share with us their part
In this unhappy mansion; or once more,
With rallied arms, to try what may be yet
Regained in heaven, or what more lost in hell?”
So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub

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Thus answered: "Leader of those armies bright,
Which, but the Omnipotent, none could have foiled,
If once they hear that voice,—their liveliest pledge
Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge

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3. Supply the ellipsis in the construction of the first sentence. Analyze the sentence thus written in full.

4. What kind of a verb is built? Quote other examples of its being used intransitively.

5. Explain the construction of let we. What is the more common form?

6. What is the derivation and meaning of-1. secure; 2. ambition; 3. let: 4. oblivious; 5. co-partners; and 6. rallied?

7. What other meanings have let and oblivious? Give examples. What is the meaning of envy? Distinguish between envy and emulation.

8. Paraphrase-I. 'whom thunder hath made greater;' 2. 'built for his envy'; 3. 'in my choice'; 4. 'to reign is worth ambition'; 5. 'to share with us their part.'

1. Parse :

LINES 271-282.

1. him; 2. but; 3. none; 4. could have foil'd; 5. pledge; 6. on; 7. signed; 8. revive; 9. though; 10. yon; 11. as; 12. we; 13. wonder; 14. height.

2. Name the extensions of voice. State what kind they are, and give the adjuncts of each. What does the adverbial clause, where it raged, modify?

Of battle when it raged, in all assaults
Their surest signal,—they will soon resume
New courage, and revive, though now they lie
Grovelling and prostrate on yon lake of fire,
As we erewhile, astounded and amazed ;—
No wonder, fallen such a pernicious height."
He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend

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Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield,
Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round,
Behind him cast; the broad circumference

Hung on his shoulders, like the moon, whose orb
Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
At evening, from the top of Fesole,
Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine,
Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast

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3. That voice. What is the force of that here? Give other examples of its use in a similar way.

4. Explain the apparent contradiction in the phrase, fallen a height. Supply the ellipsis in the last line.

5. Paraphrase-1. 'their holiest pledge'; 2. 'worst extremes' 3. on the perilous edge of battle'; 4. resume new courage'; 5. fall'n such a pernicious height.'

6. Give the meaning and derivation of-1. Satan; 2. Beelzebub; 3. foil'd; 4. pledge; 5. perilous; 6. assaults; 7. signal; 8. resume; 9. grovelling; 10. prostrate; II. erewhile; 12. resounded.

7. Write out the analyses of the two speeches (242–282).

I. Parse:

LINES 283-298.

I. shield; 2. temper; 3. cast; 4. like; 5. orb; 6. to descry; 7. which; 8. but; 9. besides; 10. vaulted.

2. Analyze the first sentence, He scarce... cast.

3. What kind of a phrase is, to descry new lands, &c.? Point out any phrases of the same kind in the next sentence.

4. Give the meaning and derivation of I. scarce; 2. fiend; 3. ponderous; 4. ethereal; 5. temper; 6. orb; 7. optic; 8. descry; 9. ammiral; 10. marle; 11. azure; 12. torrid; 13. vaulted.