 | 1909 - 622 pages
...The majestic imagery of Milton represents Satan as talking thus with his nearest mate: "\Vith licnd uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd...extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian. or Earth-born that warr'd on Jove... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire Calamity, What reinforcement...extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...afflicted powers,” Consuls how we may henceforth most offend' Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement...not what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking so his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 pages
...action: here, for example, is the first heroic simile, which depicts the size of the fallen Satan: his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian. or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove,... | |
 | Armand Nicholi - 2003 - 342 pages
...work, Milton's Parac/Lie Lost, not using the words of Adam, Eve, or God but the devil: Let us consult What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair. Throughout Freud's writings he refers often to the devil, sometimes as a figure of speech, sometimes... | |
 | Armand Nicholi - 2003 - 342 pages
...work, Milton's Paradise Lost, not using the words of Adam, Eve, or Go¿1 but the devil: Let us consult What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not, what resolution from despair. Throughout Freud's writings he refers often to the devil, sometimes as a figure of speech, sometimes... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 2003 - 824 pages
...seems to have had this in his Eye, where he deseribesSotan in thesamePosturç his other Parts beside, Prone on the Flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a Rood. 6 In ancient geography, the country' of the Iberi (Iberes), lying between the Caucasus and Armenia,... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...of which the narrator had covertly accused him. We should, he says, when we get over there, consult What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despare. (PL 1.190-91) Satan thus accepts openly—and it was in this way that a Shelley read the lines—what... | |
 | Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - 2004 - 332 pages
...appeared to answer the words of Milton: With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, 33 For others, such was this creature's conformity... | |
 | Frank Kermode - 2005 - 326 pages
...rhymes by JS Diekhoff, PMLA, xlix (i954)15 Op. cit., pp. 78-81. Our Enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire Calamity, What reinforcement...gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despair. (i. 183-91) I have here marked the full rhymes, but they only reinforce the other conjunctions of opposites,... | |
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How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not, what resolution from despair." Thus Satan. talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd ; his other parts besides Prone... 
