 | John Barrell - 2000 - 860 pages
...Satan, for having waged war ‘Against the throne and monarchy of God': Him the almighty power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition (1. 44—7) It was partly this implied comparison between George and Satan, partly no doubt Burke's... | |
 | Joseph A. Seiss - 540 pages
...sons of light, and drawing them along with his presumptuous cause. All these The Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion down. How many were thus involved is not told us. The text says that the terrible apostasy embraced “ the... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2002 - 456 pages
...this purpose is a central feature of Milton: 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. (Paradise Lost, bk. 1, ll. 44-91 Milton's control over his vocabulary is faultless:... | |
 | Christian Kay, Louise Sylvester - 2001 - 328 pages
...become Satan: Him the Almighty Power / Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky / With hidous ruin and combustion down / To bottomless perdition,...adamantine chains and penal fire, / Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to arms (Bush 1966). In Modem English, as here, she Theme of a clause is in initial position... | |
 | Richard Bradford - 2001 - 236 pages
...defeat of Satan Him the Almighty Power Hurld headlong flaming from th'Etherial Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there...In Adamantine Chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to Arms (PL, I: 44—49) Ricks considers Davies reading of this, noting particularly... | |
 | Dave Freer, Eric Flint - 2001 - 299 pages
...Henri Lenoir died for the second time. But the glass that fell to the floor was empty. PART IX ... there to dwell, In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. —John Milton, Paradise Lost, First Book 43 Prometheus bound. The bleak mountain crest was full of... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 332 pages
...quintessentially Miltonic most powerfully declares itself: Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down...penal fire Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms. (1.44) Clanging stresses re-enact the cataclysmic event. The lightly vowelled 'flaming from th' ethereal... | |
 | William Fietzer - 2002 - 278 pages
...children, and to Leo Burt, wherever he is. 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. Paradise Lost, Book I Question: How many Madisonians does it take to screw... | |
 | Kathleen Raine - 2002 - 390 pages
...Power" who defeated the fallen angels, Hurld headlong flaming from th? Ethereal Skie With hideous mine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there...dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th" 1 Omnipotent to Arms. 2 " The underlying Miltonic pattern is clear when presently Urizen... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 pages
...describing Satan's mighty fall from Heaven: 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. (1.44-9) Here again we begin with a distinctive Miltonic inversion of the natural... | |
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