 | 1863 - 982 pàgines
...session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from this happy...usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pàgines
...session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. XVIII And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy...usurped sway, And, wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - 1986 - 328 pàgines
...that he can no longer deceive the nations. In the words of the poet: . . . from this happy day Th' old Dragon under ground In straiter limits bound,...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail."1 The illustration shows the dragon, Satan, cast down... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. (1. 97-104) 40 And then at last our bliss Full y fought all night with a cocaine rat, (1. 1—4) 68 On her underground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And, wroth to see his... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - 1994 - 264 pàgines
...session, The dreadful judge in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. (Milton 1971a: II. 149-172) The imaginative leap to the last trumpet, followed by a return to the present,... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 1995 - 216 pàgines
...described the birth of Christ as an event imposing limits on Satan's power: from this happy day Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway. The political and military imagery of Paradise Lost does not quantify the victory in such specific... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 pàgines
...of Christ. Milton alludes to the Plutarchan event in his ode "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. . . . The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament.... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 pàgines
...colored drapery. 27. Gabriel's trumpet call when the dead will waken to be judged. Th 'old dragon 29 under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wrath to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles are dumb,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 508 pàgines
...which are to be found many ftrokes of the fublime. thufiafm, that reigns in the following ftanzas ; The oracles are dumb*, No voice or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; No nightly trance, or breathed fpell, Infpires the pale-ey'd prieft from the prophetic cell. . Such... | |
 | Juliet Cummins - 2003 - 276 pàgines
...appears to share Pareus's view that Satan was partially bound at Christ's birth, pronouncing: "Th'old Dragon under ground, / In straiter limits bound, / Not half so far casts his usurped sway" (ll. 168-7o). Others of Milton's early poems - "On Time" and "At a Solemn Music" - also take time or... | |
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest... 
