| John Milton - 1855 - 644 sider
...Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his... | |
| George Every, Richard Harries, Bishop Kallistos Ware - 1984 - 276 sider
...Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and...penal Fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. JOHN MILTON The Lament of Adam Banished from the joys of paradise, Adam sat outside and wept, and heating... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sider
...Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms. [1.44-49] The contrast between the treatment of fallen angel and fallen... | |
| Richard Wilbur - 1990 - 294 sider
...Hurled headlong flaming from the Ethereal sky / With hideous ruin and combustion, down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire, / Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms" (Paradise Lost, Book I, 44ff.) You just couldn't do that in free verse. I hate... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless silently approac defie th' Omnipotent to Arms. Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with... | |
| William Malin Porter - 1993 - 234 sider
...power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skv With hideous ruin and combustion down To bouomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire. Who durst defy the omnipotent to arms, Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his... | |
| Christopher Edgar, Ron Padgett - 1994 - 308 sider
...Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arm. The main problem for one group of my tenth graders was the last line. Where do you put it? They... | |
| William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 sider
...from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down OrmsBy Macf&igkt Mitchett To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.... Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.135... | |
| Emery H. Bancroft - 1977 - 406 sider
...Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition: there to dwell In Adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. — Milton Doctrinal statement: Satan is under a perpetual curse; his conquest... | |
| Charles O. Hartman - 1996 - 220 sider
...Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to Arms. Eschewing rhyme, Milton obviously did not abandon all prosodic conventions.... | |
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