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Page 116
Milton , however , here uses it with a precise significance - ruin referring to
Satan's overthrow and expulsion from Heaven , and combustion to the flaming
track of his descent . 50–53 . “ Nine times the space , ” & c . Commentators have
fancied ...
Milton , however , here uses it with a precise significance - ruin referring to
Satan's overthrow and expulsion from Heaven , and combustion to the flaming
track of his descent . 50–53 . “ Nine times the space , ” & c . Commentators have
fancied ...
Page 117
... which some suppose Milton to have consulted in the edition of Cędmon , with
a Latin version by Francis Junius , published at Amsterdam in 1655 ( see Introd .
p . 39 ) . Satan's soliloquy in Hell after his Fall opens thus in Cędmon : “ Is ...
... which some suppose Milton to have consulted in the edition of Cędmon , with
a Latin version by Francis Junius , published at Amsterdam in 1655 ( see Introd .
p . 39 ) . Satan's soliloquy in Hell after his Fall opens thus in Cędmon : “ Is ...
Page 118
The syntax of this whole first speech of Satan to Beelzebub is very abrupt and
irregular - approaching here and there the figures of speech known in books on
Rhetoric as Anacolouth ( unfinished clause or sentence ) , and Synathręsmus ...
The syntax of this whole first speech of Satan to Beelzebub is very abrupt and
irregular - approaching here and there the figures of speech known in books on
Rhetoric as Anacolouth ( unfinished clause or sentence ) , and Synathręsmus ...
Page 119
Imagine that Satan here sees at some distance a dark plain or extent of smoking
ground ( afterwards described more particularly ) , lying out of the burning and
flaming element in the midst of which they still are . 198. “ Titanian or Earth - born
...
Imagine that Satan here sees at some distance a dark plain or extent of smoking
ground ( afterwards described more particularly ) , lying out of the burning and
flaming element in the midst of which they still are . 198. “ Titanian or Earth - born
...
Page 120
279–281 . though now they lie .... as we crewhile " : Satan and Beelzebub are on
the solid plain beside the burning lake ; but all the rest of the Angels are still in
the lake . 1 1 282. " pernicious highth , " Though meaning originally “ I 20 [ BOOK
I.
279–281 . though now they lie .... as we crewhile " : Satan and Beelzebub are on
the solid plain beside the burning lake ; but all the rest of the Angels are still in
the lake . 1 1 282. " pernicious highth , " Though meaning originally “ I 20 [ BOOK
I.
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Editors | John Mitford, David Masson |
| Publisher | J. R. Osgood, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2016 |
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