 That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and misery Death's harbinger. Sad task ! yet argument Not less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe, pursued . Thrice fugitive about Troy wall ; or rage Of Turnus...  Paradiso perduto di Milton - Seite 154von John Milton - 1852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | C. S. Lewis - 2004 - 1086 Seiten
...things themselves. 68 Spenser, Faerie Queene, VI, Preface, 1, 1-2, 69 Milton, Paradise Lost, IX, 1 3-16: 'Sad task! Yet argument / Not less but more heroic...Achilles on his foe pursued / Thrice fugitive about Troy wall,' 70 ibid., 1, 43. 7 1 Spenser, Faerie Queene, VII, vii, 39, 9, 'Damme' says Wellington in... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 Seiten
...13-15). Milton celebrates the heroic moral vehemence of God: Anger and just rebuke, and judgment giv'n That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and...heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursu'd ... (IX.10-15) The narrator lauds the Son's driving his chariot 'o'er the necks ... of warring... | |
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