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Page 117
The centre " is the Earth , or the Earth's centre : “ the utmost pole ” is not the
Earth's pole , but the pole of the entire Starry Universe . Homer ( Iliad , viii . 16 )
makes Tartarus just as far beneath Hades as Earth is beneath Heaven ; and so
also ...
The centre " is the Earth , or the Earth's centre : “ the utmost pole ” is not the
Earth's pole , but the pole of the entire Starry Universe . Homer ( Iliad , viii . 16 )
makes Tartarus just as far beneath Hades as Earth is beneath Heaven ; and so
also ...
Page 130
... the fat , the crude ; the inflammable , the non - inflammable ; and the like . For
they appear to be these two enormous tribes of things which occupy and
penetrate the universe . In the subterranean world we find sulphur and mercury ,
as they ...
... the fat , the crude ; the inflammable , the non - inflammable ; and the like . For
they appear to be these two enormous tribes of things which occupy and
penetrate the universe . In the subterranean world we find sulphur and mercury ,
as they ...
Page 131
Not so . Centre here is the Earth itself as a whole , not its interior merely . , In old
literature the Earth , as the supposed centre of the Universe , was frequently
called “ the centre " par excellence . Thus Shakespeare ( Troil , and Cres . I. iii . )
...
Not so . Centre here is the Earth itself as a whole , not its interior merely . , In old
literature the Earth , as the supposed centre of the Universe , was frequently
called “ the centre " par excellence . Thus Shakespeare ( Troil , and Cres . I. iii . )
...
Page 145
The allegory here , if translated , would mean that Sin first came into being in the
mind of Satan when he conceived his rebellion - the Universe till then having
known no such thing . These yelling monsters , " & c . So far as this part of the ...
The allegory here , if translated , would mean that Sin first came into being in the
mind of Satan when he conceived his rebellion - the Universe till then having
known no such thing . These yelling monsters , " & c . So far as this part of the ...
Page 146
Then , in the phrase " eldest Night and Chaos , ancestors of Nature , ” there is
also a dense compost of difficult conceptions ; for “ Nature " here is used in the
sense of “ Creation ” or “ the created Universe in all its parts , " and there is a ...
Then , in the phrase " eldest Night and Chaos , ancestors of Nature , ” there is
also a dense compost of difficult conceptions ; for “ Nature " here is used in the
sense of “ Creation ” or “ the created Universe in all its parts , " and there is a ...
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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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