 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 pages
...are constantly compared to those of Greek and Roman epic and legend. Thus, in Paradise Lost Satan was in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous...that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held. . . ,32 The valiant Indians in The Poem ofAraucania are said to be braver than... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 1987 - 532 pages
...traditional poetry; it establishes its subject not by isolating but through the large inclusive comparison. Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift...as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titaniaii, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briarcos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Satan talking to his neerest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That sparkling blaz'd, HFP; WBLP; WGRP STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER (1826-1884)...summer, the darkeys are gay; The corn-top's ripe, and t warr'd on Jove, Briarios or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan,... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not, what resolution from despair.' Thus Satan,...whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-bom, that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon,229 whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that... | |
 | Fernando Pessoa - 1996 - 620 pages
...Tita vencido ou ainda um monstro marinho que o navegador ignorante toma por urna ilha na escuridäo: Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift...that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...Satan talking to his nearest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended...name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan,... | |
 | 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...name of monstrous size, Titanian. or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briarcos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan...... | |
 | Michael Freeman, Michael J. Freeman, Professor of English Law Michael Freeman - 2004 - 332 pages
...pre-Adamite world. In some eyes, it appeared to answer the words of Milton: With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides...as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, 33 For others, such was this creature's conformity with dragons of antiquity, that one could almost... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 pages
...error because in order to read the complex syntax, we have necessarily employed our reasoning powers. Thus Satan talking to his nearest Mate With Head up-lift...monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-Born, that warred on ]ove, Briareos or Typhon, who the Den By ancient Tarsus* held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan,1 which... | |
 | Elizabeth Baird Hardy - 2014 - 196 pages
...specific fashion that evokes his predecessors. In Paradise Lost, the fallen Satan is clearly a giant: With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling...that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan.... So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend... | |
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Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood... 
