...grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 196 Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived...

...the stomach of the cormorant. Milton represents Satan like a cormorant, in the garden of Eden : — On the tree of life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. CV They were formerly trained in England, for the purpose of catching fish, as falcons and hawks were...

...grand thief into God's fold ; StTsInce into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue...

...grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb ; Thence up he flew and on the tree of life, (The middle tree, and highest there that grew,) |yi Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who liv'd...

...were for chasing the fleet inhabitants of the air. We are told that the custom is still in practice in China. This bird, although of the aquatic kind,...often seen, like the pelican, perched upon trees. Milton tells us that Satan - on the tree of life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew, Sat...

...grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd* hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, (The middle tree and highest there that grew,) 6 Sat like a cormorant: 6 yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who liv'd...

...be found to originate in the poem of Paradise Lost, Book iv. page 194: — " Thence up he flew; and on the tree of life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant." But why a cormorant ? Montague, our oldest ornithologist, has branded it with bad qualities: later...

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...grand thief into God's fold; So since into hia church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew Sat like a cormorant." Now is not each of these citations a separate poem, rich, " simple, sensuous, passionate 2" Let the...