 | Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
...gods as devils. Here, for instance, he describes the fall of Vulcan: . . . and how he fell From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal...dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos the Aegean isle . . . and then abruptly undercuts... | |
 | Kent Gramm - 2001 - 350 pages
...with classical mythology: . . . Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements:...setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lernnos th' Aegean Isle . . . (I 740-46) Milton was a man of the Renaissance, one foot in the old... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell 740 From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements:...the Zenith like a falling Star, 745 On Lemnos th' /Egcean Isle: thus they relate, Erring; for he with this rebellious rout Fell long before; nor aught... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 pages
...ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber. and how he fell From Heav'n. they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements:...setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star. On Umnos th' Aegaean Isle: thus they relate, Erring. (1.738-47) This passage richly evokes the mythic... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...land0 Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell0 740 From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove0 Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn To noon...dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the Aegaean isle: thus they relate. Erring;... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 pages
...Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1962), pp. 94-110. and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements:...from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lennios th' ASgcean... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 592 pages
...architect, and god of fire. In Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal...setting sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the ^Egean isle. Milton, Paradise Lost, 739, etc. (1665). Muley Bugentuf, king of Morocco,... | |
 | Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 pages
...ancient Greece; and in Ausonian Land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements:...setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos, th' Aegean Isle. (1.739^46) In the parallels to the Bible and to the classical epics, Milton... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 pages
...unadored In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian6 land Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal...dewy Eve, A Summer's day; and with the setting Sun Dropped from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Letnnos the Aegaean Isle: thus they relate, Erring... | |
 | Mario Reading - 2007 - 314 pages
...who is the real boss of fire, as Milton describes in Paradise Lost, Book 1, from line 742 onwards: Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon...setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star. So this is a warning, then, after the elucidatory prayer of thanks in the previous quatrain - a warning... | |
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From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star... 
