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" the Almighty Power, Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Page 354
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America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pages
...revenge, deceived The mother of mankind.... Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.... Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counseled ignoble ease,...
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Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody

Charles O. Hartman - 1996 - 220 pages
...illustrate the point (i, lines 44-49): . . . Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to Arms. Eschewing rhyme, Milton obviously did not abandon all prosodic conventions....
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The Secret Archives of the Vatican

Maria Luisa Ambrosini, Mary Willis - 1996 - 420 pages
...heaven it was not a tumble from some celestial Tarpeian rock, but a fall for nine days, earth time: Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf. Some historians suggest that the Galileo controversy...
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Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading

Joseph Adamson - 1997 - 366 pages
...Heav'n and Battle proud With vain attempt. Him the almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. (1.36—49) In Pierre, the theme of the assault on heaven appears in the description...
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The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention

Catherine Gimelli Martin - 1998 - 404 pages
...Satan's verbal and physical transformations, as Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, hee with his...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, 7548 Paradise Lost Him the almighty power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down lb bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the omnipotent...
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Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians: Contact Your Invisible Helpers

Richard Webster - 1998 - 372 pages
...with him. In Paradise Lost, Milton gives a vivid account of the fall: Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down Th bow,mless perdition; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent...
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Archetype of the Apocalypse: Divine Vengeance, Terrorism, and the End of the ...

Edward F. Edinger - 2002 - 252 pages
...Heav'n and Battle proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. (l:33-49) 6 This is exactly the same image as in the Book of Revelation, yet...
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A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...imperturbability of that other, summer space: Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire . . . (1.44-48) One of the major means of realizing the counterplot is the simile. Throughout Paradise...
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Requiem for Harlem: Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume IV, A Novel

Henry Roth - 1998 - 316 pages
...oylum.. . “And the terminal words, when she removed her hands from before her face: “Uhmein seluh.” Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew, Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf Confounded, though immortal“He could be here an hour...
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