 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 страници
...empyreal heav'n, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorn'd Of living sapphire, once his native seat; And fast by hanging in a golden chain This pendant world,1 in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. Thither full fraught... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 468 страници
...Heaven extended wide In crescent, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat, And, fast...as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon." Care must be taken not to misinterpret this passage. Even Addison misinterpreted it. He speaks of Satan's... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 страници
...So he with difficulty and lahour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and lahour he. Booh ii. Line 1021. And fast by, hanging in a golden chain This pendent...as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. Booh ii. Line 1051. Hail, holy light ! offspring of heaven first-horn. Booh iii. Line I. The rising... | |
 | 1909 - 502 страници
...Heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat, And, fast...moon. Thither, full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accurst, and in a cursed hour, he hies. THE THIRD BOOK THE ARGUMENT. — God, sitting on his throne,... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 страници
...extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned 1050 Of living sapphire, once his native seat; And fast...golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star . . . Compare Nos 20, 21, 26, 40, 54. — The substitution of "empyreal" for "imperial" is very curious,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 страници
...Empyreal Heav'n, extended wide In circuit, undetermin'd square or round, With Opal Tow'rs and Battlements adorn'd Of living Sapphire, once his native Seat; And fast by hanging in a golden Chain This pendant world, in bigness as a Star Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon. Thither full fraught with... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 страници
...penetrates it as the body is from the soul. The universe, "This pendant world," a jewel hung from heaven "in bigness as a Star / Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon" (2.1052-53) is well within "the Precincts of light" (3.88). At the beginning of his great hexameron... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 страници
...descry' d hanging in the Clouds. . . . Ver. 1051. And fast by hanging in a Golden Chain This pendant World, in bigness as a Star Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon. Dr. B. by putting a Comma after Magnitude, (contrary to all the first Editions) has fallen into a strange... | |
 | Mary Shelley - 1996 - 476 страници
...tree of 13 Unidentified. 14 Cf. Paradise Lost 2.1052-53, where earth is described as "This pendant world, in bigness as a Star / Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon." humanity, and send to late posterity the tale of the ante-pestilential race, the heroes and sages of... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1997 - 244 страници
...once his native Seat; And fast by hanging in a gold'n Chain This pendant World, in bigness as a Starr Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon. Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge, Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies. (1034-55) The brief comparison of Satan's arrival at his journey's... | |
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Gladly the port, though shrouds and tackle torn ; Or in the emptier waste, resembling air, Weighs his spread wings, at leisure to behold Far off the empyreal heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements... 
