HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold... La Belle Assemblée - Pagina 91810Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Ainslie Thomas Embree, Carol Gluck - 1997 - 1048 pagina’s
...was searching for a metaphor for splendor, he found it, not in Europe, but in travelers' accounts of The wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous east with richest hand Show'rs on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold.16 What dazzled travelers was the lifestyle of the courts; the occasional... | |
| R. A. Donkin - 1998 - 496 pagina’s
...are, with few exceptions, India or Persia or the East generally. Milton combined all three in "... the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold."4 278 BEYOND PRICE • PEARLS AND PEARL-FISHING "Thine argosy from Alexandria,... | |
| Balachandra Rajan - 1999 - 284 pagina’s
...ends poised on these lines, and as we turn the page, the imagination opens the doors to the interior: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence.... | |
| Philip R. Hardie - 1999 - 412 pagina’s
...Mackail rightly draws attention to Milton's allusion in PL 2.1-4, where Satan is depicted on a throne 'which far / outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind / or where the gorgeous East with richest hand / showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold'. The OED quotes this as the earliest instance of "barbaric"... | |
| John Michael Archer - 2001 - 268 pagina’s
...outpost of empire, lends a hollow resonance to Satan's "bad eminence" in the council scene of Book 2: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone...the gorgeous East with richest hand, Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. (2:1-4) The fortunes of Hormuz rose and fell during the seventeenth... | |
| George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson - 2001 - 678 pagina’s
...distributing point for the pearls, which enriched the argosies of Portugal, and contributed so largely to the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, which Milton celebrates in "Paradise Lost." This wonderful Ormus, in... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pagina’s
...presentation of his opponents 1n Absalom and Achitopke I (8) and Mac Flecknot (41). High on a throne of a royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence;... | |
| John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pagina’s
...Gulf between Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by Chaos, the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he...the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd 5 To that bad eminence; and from... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...gulf between hell and heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by Chaos, the power0 of that place, to the sight of this new world which he...throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormu2 and of Ind,0 Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl... | |
| David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 pagina’s
...raised throne of Pandemonium: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the wealth ofOrmus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. (2.1-6) This... | |
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