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... Paradiso perduto di Milton - Page 58by John Milton - 1852Full view - About this book
| Philip R. Hardie - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 412 pages
...Mackail rightly draws attention to Milton's allusion in PL 2.1-4, where Satan is depicted on a throne 'which far / outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind...hand / showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold'. The OED quotes this as the earliest instance of "barbaric" in the sense 'pertaining or proper to barbarians... | |
| John Michael Archer - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 268 pages
...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...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand, Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. (2:1-4) The fortunes of Hormuz rose and fell during the... | |
| Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...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...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high,... | |
| John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...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...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd 5 To that bad eminence;... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...which he sought. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormu2 and of Ind,0 Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high,... | |
| Margaret Kean - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 196 pages
...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...Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high,... | |
| Andrew Carnegie - Travel - 2005 - 337 pages
...Gate ; we had just reached the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and before us lay . . . "the wealth of Ormus of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold." To every blink the livelong night there came this refrain, which seemed to close each scene of Oriental... | |
| Balachandra Rajan, Joseph A. Wittreich - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 209 pages
...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...exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. (PL 2.1-6) Ormuz was once the emporium of the Orient, and Marvell's deluded voyagers to the Bermudas... | |
| Walter S. H. Lim - History - 2006 - 314 pages
...as China and India. In Paradise Lost Satan is directly associated with the world of the Orient: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.... | |
| Terry Eagleton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 193 pages
...lines of Book 2 of Paradise Lost, in which Milton introduces us to Satan on his kingly throne: High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat ... The appearance of Satan is deferred... | |
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