 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 891 pages
...1. 32. bergamot = a fine type of pear, also known as a "prmce's pear" ON MR. MILTON'S PARADlSE LOST When I beheld the poet blind, yet bold, In slender book his vast design unfold: Messiah crowned, God's reconciled decree, Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree, Heaven, Hell, Earth, Chaos,... | |
 | Andrew Shifflett - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 174 pages
...follows the outlines of Jonson's skeptical sequence in the first eleven lines of "On Paradise Lost": When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown'd, Gods Rcconcil'd Decree, Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree, Heav'n, Hell, Earth, Chaos, All; the... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Literary Collections - 2002 - 437 pages
...rather than rhyming couplets, which were the fashionable form; Marvell alludes to this in 11. 45-54. When I beheld the poet blind, yet bold, In slender book his vast design unfold, Messiah crowned, God's reconciled decree,* Rebelling angels, the forbidden tree, Heaven, hell, earth, chaos,... | |
 | David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 136 pages
...contemporary, the poet Andrew Marvell, was struck by the sheer audacity and boldness of Paradise Lost: When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown 'd, God's Reconcil'd Decree, Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree Heav'n. Hell, Earth, Chaos.... | |
 | Sharon Achinstein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 302 pages
...then, he goes on to investigate Milton's epic task of rendering God's totality: "Messiah Crown 'd, God's Reconcil'd Decree,/ Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree,/ Heav'n, Hell, Earth, Chaos, All." Milton's mode - perhaps his "Mar-All" - indeed dares to compete with God for the title of supreme being.... | |
 | David Mikics - Reference - 2008 - 368 pages
...Consider Andrew Marvell's summary of the subject of Paradise Lost (1667), by his friend John Milton: When I beheld the poet blind, yet bold, In slender book his vast design unfold, Messiah crowned, God's reconciled decree, Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree, Heaven, Hell, Earth, Chaos,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839
...quicunque leget tantum cecinisse putabit Maeonidem ranas, Virgilium culices. SB, MD ON PARADISE LOST. WHEN I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender...book his vast design unfold, Messiah crown'd, God's reconciled decree, Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree, Heaven, Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 417 pages
...august lines of the house which Milton has builded. ON PARADISE LOST [PREFIXED TO THE SECOND EDITION] WHEN I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender book his vast design unfold — Messiah crowned, God's reconciled decree, Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree, Heaven, Hell, Earth, Chaos,... | |
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Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So... 
