 | George MacDonald - 1868 - 356 pages
...outbrake : The aged earth, aghast With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges1 the scaly horror of his folded tail.2 The oracles are dumb : s No voice or hideous hum Runs... | |
 | 1868 - 510 pages
...outbrake : The aged Earth aghast With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake; When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge...usurped sway . And, wroth to see his kingdom fail ' ' Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...outbrake : The aged earth aghast, With terror of that blast, Shall from the surface to the centre shake ; When at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge...begins ; for, from this happy day, The old dragon, underground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...of gold," the Babe new born must redeem us on the cross, and afterward return for the Last Judgment: And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins. . . . 44. Hence Milton's statement, at the beginning of Paradise Lost, that his story moves from the... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...that blast. Shall from the surface to the center shake: When at the worlds last session, The dreadfull Judge in middle Air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfet is. But now begins .... (Nativiry Ode, ll. 155-67) The "now" marks Milton's primary commitment.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. (1. 97-104) 40 caine dog and a cocaine cat, They fought all night with a cocaine rat, (1. 1—4) 68 On her underground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And, wroth to see his... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - 1994 - 264 pages
...the tension. The eschatological tension culminates in a present indicative of prophetic fulfillment: "And then at last our bliss / Full and perfect is, / But now begins... ." The first present tense refers to the future (the last judgment) and the second to the past (the... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day Th' old Dragon under-ground15 In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 1995 - 216 pages
...described the birth of Christ as an event imposing limits on Satan's power: from this happy day Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway. The political and military imagery of Paradise Lost does not quantify the victory in such specific... | |
 | J. Martin Evans - 1998 - 204 pages
...Earth aghast With terrour of that blast, Shall from the surface to the center shake; When at the worlds last session, The dreadful Judge in middle Air shall spread his throne. [157-64] The third stage, when "our bliss" (165) is finally consummated, consists of a cosmic version... | |
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With terror of that blast Shall from the surface to the centre shake, When, at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread His throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day... 
