 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 192 pages
...Listen again to the more composed determination and sedate self-reliance of the archangelic sufferer ! "Is this the region ? this the soil, the clime!" Said...be right ; farthest from him is best, Whom reason hath equal? d, force hath made supreme Move his equals. Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...flood, As gods, and by their own recovered strength, 240 Not by the sufferance of supernal power. " Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said..." For that celestial light ? Be it so ! since he, 243 " Who now is Sovran,3 can dispose and bid " What shall be right : farthest from him is best,3 "... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Stygian flood As gods, and by their own recovered strength, Not by the sufferance of supernal power. "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said...is sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right : f ardest from Him is best, Whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme Above his equals. Farewell,... | |
 | England - 1852 - 798 pages
...the Leader, more than any other angel, takes penetrating and comprehensive views of his situation : " Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, —...Archangel, — this the seat That we must change for Heaven 1 " SEWARD. Beelzebuh, at first, and throughout, is a grand, a sublime angel; beyond all the others,... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...beauty by fiat: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Climate. . . . That we must change for Heav'n; this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it...is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right. (1.242,244-47) Such a "sovran" cannot simply let the world be, either by accepting its pain or by welcoming... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. 7556 Paradise Lost 7557 Paradise Lost Farewell, happy fields Where joy for ever dwells: hail horrors, hail Infernal world,... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - Canon (Literature) - 1999 - 188 pages
...flood As gods, and by their own recover'd strength, 2(1 Not by the sufferance of supernal power. "1s this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then...gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he 25 Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right: farthest from him is best. Whom reason... | |
 | Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...appearances, making God a being no different from himself, except in the extrinsic attribute of power: Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, Said...that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right: furthest from him is best Whom reason hath equalled,... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - Good and evil - 2001 - 376 pages
...the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch- Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it...is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right: fardest from him is best Whom reason hath equall'd, force hath made supreme Above his equals. Farewell... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Stygian flood0 As gods, and by their own recovered strength, 240 Not by the sufferance of supernal powee. Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, Said...that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right: furthest from him is best Whom reason hath equalled,... | |
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Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be... 
