An Introduction to the Study of MiltonRodgers, 1867 - 106 pages |
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... deep . Which action passed over , the Poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into hell , described here , not in the centre , for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly ...
... deep . Which action passed over , the Poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into hell , described here , not in the centre , for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly ...
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... deep tract of hell - say first , what cause 30 Moved our grand parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who ...
... deep tract of hell - say first , what cause 30 Moved our grand parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who ...
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... Milton's exquisite taste ( 2 ) What is the character of Satan , as 12. What is noticeable in the construction of the sentences ? How do you account for it ? Vaunting aloud , but racked with deep despair : And BOOK I. ] II PARADISE LOST .
... Milton's exquisite taste ( 2 ) What is the character of Satan , as 12. What is noticeable in the construction of the sentences ? How do you account for it ? Vaunting aloud , but racked with deep despair : And BOOK I. ] II PARADISE LOST .
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John Milton, Alex Monfries. Vaunting aloud , but racked with deep despair : And him thus answered soon his bold compeer : " O Prince , O chief of many throned powers , That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct , and in ...
John Milton, Alex Monfries. Vaunting aloud , but racked with deep despair : And him thus answered soon his bold compeer : " O Prince , O chief of many throned powers , That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct , and in ...
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... deep ? What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undiminish'd , or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? ” 150 155 Whereto with speedy words the arch - fiend replied : " Fall'n cherub , to be weak is miserable , Doing ...
... deep ? What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undiminish'd , or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? ” 150 155 Whereto with speedy words the arch - fiend replied : " Fall'n cherub , to be weak is miserable , Doing ...
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adjective ADVERB ¯neid Ahaz altar analysis Analyze angels anon anteced apposition Argob arms Aroer Ashtaroth Ashtoreth battle Beelzebub Book bright cast Compare conj dark denote derivation and meaning dread eternal Explain the allusion Explain the meaning expression expressions-I Faery Queen fallen fire force Gibeah Give other examples Give the derivation Give the meaning glory gods Greek hath heaven height hell Heshbon hill Horonaim horrid hugest Iliad infernal kind Kings Lemnos LINES meaning and derivation meaning of-1 meaning of―I Milton Moloch mood mountain muse noun noun clause o'er object Olympus Orion armed Osiris Paradise Lost Paraphrase Parse phrase Piers Ploughman poem poet Predicate prep preposition pron pronoun referred reign round Satan says seat sense sentence Sibma signify sing Sion speech spirits stood subj Supply the ellipsis temple Thammuz thence thou thrice throne Tophet understood utmost verb wings word worship
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Page 20 - 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...
Page 6 - Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Page 56 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 19 - 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.
Page 8 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all...
Page 39 - Awaiting what command their mighty Chief Had to impose. He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views — their order due, Their visages and stature as of Gods; 570 Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Page 4 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 5 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 50 - Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 23 - Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels : so thick bestrewn, Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He called so loud, that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.