 With all his verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root, an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews...  Oeuvres completes - Side 430af François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Joseph Ellis Duncan - 1972 - 349 sider
...the great River to the op'ning Gulf, And there take root an Hand salt and bare, The haunt of Scales and Ores, and Sea-Mews clang. To teach thee that God...brought By Men who there frequent, or therein dwell. (XI, 828-38) Milton's description makes it clear that he interpreted Genesis 7 to mean literally that... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 sider
...the horned flood, With all his verdue spoil'd, and Trees adrift Down the great River to the op'ning Gulf, And there take root an Island salt and bare,...brought By men who there frequent, or therein dwell. (11.829-838) Milton has lovingly created paradise as the historical referent of all human dreams ("Not... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 sider
...as a physical locale, and tells him that during the Flood the Mount of Paradise will be washed away, "To teach thee that God attributes to place / No sanctity, if none be thither brought / By Men" (XI.836-37). Once one begins to think of paradise, not as a sacred precinct established by God, but... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 1990 - 216 sider
...of Paradise itself, a divine act, as the angel explains, aimed at teaching Adam an essential lesson: To teach thee that God attributes to place No sanctity,...brought By Men who there frequent, or therein dwell. (xi.836- 38) Michael's presentation at this point is intended to teach Adam something about the nature... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 sider
...the horned flood With all his verdure spoil'd, and Trees adrift Down the great River to the op'ning Gulf, And there take root an Island salt and bare....brought By men who there frequent, or therein dwell. (x1, 822-38) Here Milton forecasts, through Michael, the destruction of the Mount of Paradise, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 sider
...moved 830 Out of his place, pushed by the horned flood, With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening Gulf, And there...thither brought By men who there frequent or therein dwell.569 And now what further shall ensue behold.' He looked, and saw the ark hull on the flood, 840... | |
 | Lawrence Manley - 1995 - 638 sider
...the horned flood, With all his verdure spoil'd, and Trees adrift Down the great River to the op'ning Gulf, And there take root an Island salt and bare, The haunt of Seals and Orcs, and Sea-mews clang. To teach thee that God attributes to place No sanctity, if none be thither... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 sider
...the great River to the op'ning Gulf, And there take root an Hand salt and bare, The haum of Scales and Ores, and Sea-mews clang. To teach thee that God attributes to place No sanctitie, if none be thither brought By Men who there frequent, or therein dwell. (829-38) The moral... | |
 | Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 sider
...different might things have been had Urban, and those who heard him, espoused Milton's theology — "God attributes to place no sanctity if none be thither...brought by men who there frequent or therein dwell" (Paradise Lost, bk. 11, lines 836-38). Had they brought to their deliberations such a theology of place,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 sider
...God's transformation of Eden into a wasteland, "an Island salt and bare" (11.834), indicates that he "attributes to place / No sanctity, if none be thither...brought / By Men who there frequent, or therein dwell" (836-8). The iconoclastic act is a response to humanity's own irreverence for the garden and its origin.... | |
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