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... Hell scarce holds the wild uproar : - As when Alcides from Echalia crowned With conquest , felt the envenomed robe , and tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines , And Lichas from the top of Eta threw Into the Euboic sea.1 At ...
... Hell scarce holds the wild uproar : - As when Alcides from Echalia crowned With conquest , felt the envenomed robe , and tore Through pain up by the roots Thessalian pines , And Lichas from the top of Eta threw Into the Euboic sea.1 At ...
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... hell . On the other , it names the divinity who rules in this region . The principal source of the latter conception is in Hesiod , though his representation is much less definite than Milton's , and amounts to little more than the epic ...
... hell . On the other , it names the divinity who rules in this region . The principal source of the latter conception is in Hesiod , though his representation is much less definite than Milton's , and amounts to little more than the epic ...
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... Hell at last , host of Yawning , received them whole , and on them closed.2 We may now consider the third method by ... Hell in P. L. 2. 645 ff . bears traces of similar description in Homer , Hesiod , and Vergil . The sound of Hell's ...
... Hell at last , host of Yawning , received them whole , and on them closed.2 We may now consider the third method by ... Hell in P. L. 2. 645 ff . bears traces of similar description in Homer , Hesiod , and Vergil . The sound of Hell's ...
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... Hell is reinforced by a reference to ' Typhoean rage , ' and by describing the death agony of Hercules , when , mad with pain , he slew his own com- panion . The infernal rivers are mentioned - hated Styx , Lethe , Acheron , Cocytus ...
... Hell is reinforced by a reference to ' Typhoean rage , ' and by describing the death agony of Hercules , when , mad with pain , he slew his own com- panion . The infernal rivers are mentioned - hated Styx , Lethe , Acheron , Cocytus ...
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... Hell ; For such there be , but unbelief is blind.2 In the first of these quotations Milton plainly asserts that the classical legends are mystic , intending thereby not merely an antithesis to historical or true narrative , but also the ...
... Hell ; For such there be , but unbelief is blind.2 In the first of these quotations Milton plainly asserts that the classical legends are mystic , intending thereby not merely an antithesis to historical or true narrative , but also the ...
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Page lii - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 57 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos.
Page lxi - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page lxviii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page xv - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page xxv - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page lxxxii - For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream "Had ye been there," — for what could that have done?
Page lvi - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page lix - Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!
Page xxxix - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.