An Introduction to the Study of MiltonRodgers, 1867 - 106 pages |
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... sense of injured merit , That with the Mightiest raised me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of spirits arm'd , That durst dislike his reign , and , me preferring , His utmost power with adverse ...
... sense of injured merit , That with the Mightiest raised me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of spirits arm'd , That durst dislike his reign , and , me preferring , His utmost power with adverse ...
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... sense and the sound . I. Parse : - LINES 209-220 . I. so ; 2. thence ; 3. that ( 211 ) ; 4. that ( 214 ) ; 5. en- raged ; 6. confusion ; 7. poured . 2. The word but occurs three times . Parse it fully in each case . 3. Read all the noun ...
... sense and the sound . I. Parse : - LINES 209-220 . I. so ; 2. thence ; 3. that ( 211 ) ; 4. that ( 214 ) ; 5. en- raged ; 6. confusion ; 7. poured . 2. The word but occurs three times . Parse it fully in each case . 3. Read all the noun ...
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... sense . 6. What is the meaning of clime here ? meaning ? Is this its usual 7. Who is the Tuscan artist ? Why is he called an artist ? What was Milton's opinion of the astronomer's views ? Quote a passage from a modern poet describing ...
... sense . 6. What is the meaning of clime here ? meaning ? Is this its usual 7. Who is the Tuscan artist ? Why is he called an artist ? What was Milton's opinion of the astronomer's views ? Quote a passage from a modern poet describing ...
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... sense . 6. What are the more common forms of soldan and Panim ? 7. Pandemonium . What is this capital called in Book x . ? 8. With hundreds , & c . What is the meaning of with ? Give other examples from old writers of its being used for ...
... sense . 6. What are the more common forms of soldan and Panim ? 7. Pandemonium . What is this capital called in Book x . ? 8. With hundreds , & c . What is the meaning of with ? Give other examples from old writers of its being used for ...
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... sense of providentia , foresight , or foreknowledge . ( 3 ) Pope says- ' And vindicate the ways of God to men . ' Why he preferred vindicate to justify , it would be difficult to say . ' Justify ' is the Scripture word . See Rom . iii ...
... sense of providentia , foresight , or foreknowledge . ( 3 ) Pope says- ' And vindicate the ways of God to men . ' Why he preferred vindicate to justify , it would be difficult to say . ' Justify ' is the Scripture word . See Rom . iii ...
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adjective Adverbial Æneid Ahaz altar analysis Analyze angels anon anteced apposition Argob arms Aroer Ashtaroth Ashtoreth battle Beelzebub bright cast Compare conj Dagon dark denote derivation and meaning dread eternal Explain the allusion Explain the meaning expression Faery Queen fallen fire flames force forms 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 Milton Moloch mood mountain muse noun noun clause o'er object of-I Olympus Orion armed Paradise Lost Paraphrase the expressions-I 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.