| 1909 - 502 Seiten
...the chief might offer now, Certain to be refused, what erst they feared, And, so refused, might in opinion stand His rivals, winning cheap the high repute...awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven. Nor failed they to express how much they praised That for the general safety... | |
| John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 Seiten
...than the place he sat in'. There seems to be not much point in the various brief similes for noise : Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. n 476 He ended, and the heavenly audience loud Sung hallelujah, as the sound of seas, Through multitude... | |
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1991 - 420 Seiten
...2:41 '4-7, where Milton's fallen angels "Dreaded not more the adventurer than his voice/Forbidding; and at once with him they rose; /Their rising all at once was as the sound/Of thunder heard remote." 296 Damon: Carwin's dog is named for the figure of classical legend... | |
| David Quint - 1993 - 448 Seiten
...fallen angels similarly adore Milton's Satan for his venturing to the island Earth on their behalf: Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone; and as a god Extol him equal to the highest in heaven. (2.477-79) These scenes, which go back to Ascanius embracing Euryalus before... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 Seiten
...winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. But they Dreaded not more th' adventure than his voice Forbidding; and at once with...the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend280 With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven. Nor failed... | |
| André Verbart - 1995 - 322 Seiten
...among the chief might offer now (Certain to be refus'd) what erst they feard; And so refus'd might in opinion stand His Rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. But they '' One may compare the grammatical construction of "I go •' This uncouth errand soul" (826-2"', with... | |
| Robert Thomas Fallon - 1995 - 216 Seiten
...among the chief might offer now (Certain to be refus'd) what erst they fear'd; And so refus'd might in opinion stand His Rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn. (2:469-73) The point of Satan's sudden departure is that his throne is not so "unenvied" as he pretends;... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 Seiten
...and judicious author would have com-. loud thunder; but he compares it to thunder heard at a distai . Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote; Book 2. v. 4?6[-7] which is a sound not loud or strong, but awful, and very like that i produced by... | |
| Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - 1997 - 304 Seiten
...the two offers. The response to Satan's acceptance speech is relatively subdued: the fallen angels "bend / With awful reverence prone; and as a God / Extol him equal to the highest in Heav'n" (2.477-79); in contrast, the Son's offer, once God has explained its significance,... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 Seiten
...erst they feared, 470 And so refused might in opinion stand His rivals, winning cheap the high rep1 <e Which he through hazard huge must earn. But they Dreaded...awful reverence prone, and as a god Extol him equal to the highest in heaven: Nor failed they to express how much they praised, 480 That for the general safety... | |
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