John Milton
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 96
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray, By which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. Into this wild abyss, 910 The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain 01S His dark materials to create more worlds; Into this wild abyss the wary Fiend Stood on the brink of Hell, and looked awhile, Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross. Nor was his ear less pealed 920 With noises loud and ruinous (to compare Great things with small) than when Bellona storms, 904. Barca was for the most part is in the objective, governed by for a desert country, on the north coast of understood. Africa, extending from Syrtis Major as 921. To compare great things with far as Egypt. The ancient Cyrenaica, small. Imitated from Virgil, who of which the capital was Cyrene, says, formed a part of this region. Sic cnnibuscatulos similes, sic matribushoedos 906. To whom these most adhere. Xl'im., sic pair compoMreniagmjohl, mn. The natural order is, "He, to whom these most adhere, rules (for) a mo-922. Bellona was the Roman god ment." Most is here to be considered dess of war, said by some to be the as an adjective, not an adverb. Moment sister, and by others the daughter, of With all her battering engines bent to raze Some capital city; or less than if his frame Of Heaven were falling, and these elements 925 In mutiny had from her axle torn The stediast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoko Uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league, As in a cloudy chair, ascending, rides 930 Audacious; but, that...
