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" Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle. "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ... - Page 79
by John Milton - 1763
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The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary ...

John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Mulciber; and how he fell 740 From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from me zenith like a falling star, 745 On Lemnos,...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Deserve the precious bane. Book i. Line 690. A fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. Book i. Line 710. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day. Book i. Line 742 Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side, Or fountain, some...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on ...

Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...About Nothing, I, i ; Troilus and Cressida, I, iii; Hamlet, III, ii; Milton, Paradise Lost, 1, 740: From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the...
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Columbus and Beyond: Views from Native Americans

Paula Gunn Allen - America - 1992 - 68 pages
...him Mulciber, and how he fell From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the Aegean...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...Lemnos, which was thenceforth sacred to him. Milton alludes to this story in Paradise Lost, Book i : From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the...
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Evolution and Literary Theory

Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 1096 pages
...cosmography: and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the Zenith like a falling star. After being cast...
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The Columbia History of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...the fall of Milton's Mulciber, the architect of Hell's palace in Paradise Lost. As Milton had put it, "from morn / To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, / A summer's day." And, indeed, if Milton's Satan was damned for the pride that set him against God, so...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...and how he fell 740 From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal batdements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, th'...
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Lyric of the Circle Heart: The Bowman Family Trilogy

William Eastlake - Fiction - 1996 - 532 pages
...determined failure. "Sheer o'er the crystal battlements," Phillip Reck repeated as he stumbled forward. "From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day." The edge of the abyss came up before it should and Phillip Reck shut his eyes and someone...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...7562 Paradise Lost Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalatlon. 7563 Paradise Lost t where is the man that can live without dining? ME summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star. 7564 Paradise Lost...
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