 | Alice K. Turner - 1993 - 324 lehte
...new monarch sits in sumptuousness rivaled only by Shakespeare's Cleopatra on her gilded barge: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Cold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. The demons swarm to the council in the... | |
 | Ainslie Thomas Embree, Carol Gluck - 1997 - 1048 lehte
...was searching for a metaphor for splendor, he found it, not in Europe, but in travelers' accounts of The wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...richest hand Show'rs on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold.16 What dazzled travelers was the lifestyle of the courts; the occasional glimpses we get of the... | |
 | R. A. Donkin - 1998 - 490 lehte
...are, with few exceptions, India or Persia or the East generally. Milton combined all three in "... the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold."4 278 BEYOND PRICE • PEARLS AND PEARL-FISHING "Thine argosy from Alexandria, . . . doth ride... | |
 | Balachandra Rajan - 1999 - 284 lehte
...poised on these lines, and as we turn the page, the imagination opens the doors to the interior: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.... | |
 | John Michael Archer - 2001 - 268 lehte
...of empire, lends a hollow resonance to Satan's "bad eminence" in the council scene of Book 2: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...hand, Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. (2:1-4) The fortunes of Hormuz rose and fell during the seventeenth century as it passed from Portuguese... | |
 | George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson - 2001 - 678 lehte
...distributing point for the pearls, which enriched the argosies of Portugal, and contributed so largely to the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, which Milton celebrates in "Paradise Lost." This wonderful Ormus, in the sixteenth and seventeenth... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 lehte
...presentation of his opponents 1n Absalom and Achitopke I (8) and Mac Flecknot (41). High on a throne of a royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence;... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 lehte
...through, directed 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...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd 5 To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 lehte
...raised throne of Pandemonium: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the wealth ofOrmus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. (2.1-6) This evocative passage may remind us that the great power... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 lehte
...own previous experience of defeat. But then, if we follow the Pauline allusion, Satan is a fool. High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...Ind,* Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence;... | |
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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, Satan exalted sat... 
