The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost, with notes, by J.R. Major1835 |
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Page xi
... Chaos and old Night . The review , which the leader makes of his infernal army : 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 ...
... Chaos and old Night . The review , which the leader makes of his infernal army : 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 ...
Page xx
... chaos there are several imaginary persons described , as residing in that im- mense waste of matter . This may perhaps be confor- mable to the taste of those critics who are pleased with nothing in poet which has not life and manners ...
... chaos there are several imaginary persons described , as residing in that im- mense waste of matter . This may perhaps be confor- mable to the taste of those critics who are pleased with nothing in poet which has not life and manners ...
Page xxi
... chaos , and the creation - heaven , earth , and hell - enter into the constitution of his poem . Having in the first and second books represented the infernal world with all its horrors , the thread of his fable naturally leads him into ...
... chaos , and the creation - heaven , earth , and hell - enter into the constitution of his poem . Having in the first and second books represented the infernal world with all its horrors , the thread of his fable naturally leads him into ...
Page xxiv
... chaos and confusion , strikes the imagination with something astonishingly great aud wild . Aristotle observes that the fable of an epic poem should abound in circumstances that are both credible and as- tonishing ; or , as the French ...
... chaos and confusion , strikes the imagination with something astonishingly great aud wild . Aristotle observes that the fable of an epic poem should abound in circumstances that are both credible and as- tonishing ; or , as the French ...
Page xxv
... chaos . These passages are astonishing , but not credible : the reader cannot so far impose upon himself as to see a possibility in them ; they are the description of dreams and shadows , not of things or persons . I know that many ...
... chaos . These passages are astonishing , but not credible : the reader cannot so far impose upon himself as to see a possibility in them ; they are the description of dreams and shadows , not of things or persons . I know that many ...
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Æneid Almighty ancient angels appear'd Assyria beams beautiful Beelzebub Belial Bentley bliss bright burning lake call'd called Callimachus Chaos Cocytus Compare CowPER creation darkness death deep delight Demogorgon dreadful earth Egypt Ekron eternal evil fable fiend fill'd fire gates glory gods gold golden grace happy hath heaven hell highth hill Homer HUME Iliad Imaus infernal Ithuriel Kings Latin light lost Milton Moloch moon Mozambic night o'er Ovid pain Pandæmonium Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd passage PEARCE Phlegethon poem poet quæ rage reign revenge RICHARDSON river round Satan says Scripture seem'd shade shape signifies spake spear speech spirits stars stood Telassar Thammuz thee thence things thither thou thoughts throne thunder tree turn'd Uriel vex'd viii Virg Virgil whence winds wings word καὶ τε
Popular passages
Page viii - 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.
Page 88 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs : they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole...
Page 180 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed ; Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd : For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 45 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 11 - This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal* substance cannot fail; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much...
Page 121 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 119 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 20 - 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 bestrown, Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Page 68 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more?
Page xix - Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe, who sets them on, And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other...