 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 91806Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton, David Scott Kastan - 496 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...throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Hormuz and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - 2007 - 182 pagina’s
...opening lines of Book 2 of Paradise Lost, in which Milton introduces us to Satan on his kingly throne: High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...the gorgeous East with richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat ... The appearance of Satan is deferred to the fifth... | |
 | Walter S. H. Lim - 2006 - 305 pagina’s
...empires as China and India. In Paradise Lost Satan is directly associated with the world of the Orient: 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, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. (PL 2: 1-6)... | |
 | Balachandra Rajan, Elizabeth Sauer - 2006 - 192 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 rais'd To that bad eminence.... | |
 | David Colbert - 2006 - 158 pagina’s
...a writer in the first place. It happened when he read these lines of Paradise Lost in high school: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the Wealth of Ormus and oflnd, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan... | |
 | Nicolas H. Nelson - 2006 - 267 pagina’s
...some of his closest associates to present their advice. He presides like a eastern potentate sitting "High on a throne of royal state, which far / Outshone the wealth of Ormus [modem Hormuz on the Persian Gulf] and of Ind" [India] (2: 1-2). This strongly suggests Satan's pride... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 252 pagina’s
...soon quit and learn to kneel.32 Milton's Satan, who refuses to kneel, sits on a throne that outshines "the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, / Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand / Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold" (2.1—4). Among the countries Adam may have seen "in Spirit" from the... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2008
...self-abasement, not freedom.20 At the beginning of Book 2, Satan sits inside Pandemonium like an eastern king: 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) 19 Milton, Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes... | |
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