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Page 49
... are dwarfed by Milton's , and that , whereas Virgil's " lord of the Ap- ennine , " to which Aeneas ' stature is compared , merely rears his crest - far into the air , Satan's stature actually " THE INFERNAL SERPENT 49.
... are dwarfed by Milton's , and that , whereas Virgil's " lord of the Ap- ennine , " to which Aeneas ' stature is compared , merely rears his crest - far into the air , Satan's stature actually " THE INFERNAL SERPENT 49.
Page 107
... compared with great , are our Attic bees urged on each in her proper duty by inborn love of possession . " 14 Aen . 3.570-77 . The passage is quoted and discussed above , pp . 60-61 . reader that he could never have done so without ...
... compared with great , are our Attic bees urged on each in her proper duty by inborn love of possession . " 14 Aen . 3.570-77 . The passage is quoted and discussed above , pp . 60-61 . reader that he could never have done so without ...
Page 124
... comparable to that of Homer and Virgil ? We know that Milton regarded his epic subject and theme as the noblest that ... compared with an uninflected language like English , is that in the former there is no such thing as a fixed order ...
... comparable to that of Homer and Virgil ? We know that Milton regarded his epic subject and theme as the noblest that ... compared with an uninflected language like English , is that in the former there is no such thing as a fixed order ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus