...Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (9.41-7) The...

...Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (9.41-47) The...

...action in a harmony of words: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntarie move Harmonious numbers. (Ill, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (IX, 46f) The great importance attached to visual imagery owes much, and rightly, to the traditional...

...Milton's Paradise Lost: 'Me of these / Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument / Remains, . . . unless an age too late, or cold / Climate, or years damp my intended wing / Depressed'.. (PL. 9. 4 1-6)) We might say that the epic story is sacred, monologic and unified; but...

...raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold0 Climate, or years damp my intended wing0 Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear. The sun was sunk, and after him the star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring0 Twilight upon the earth,...

...to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest, and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (PL 9.41-47) On these breathtakingly honest lines, William Kerrigan commented that the narrator is...

...Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing 45 Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. The Sun was sunk,...

...Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (9.13-47) These...

...Nor skill'd nor studious, higher Argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (Milton, Paradise...

...ethic: just as Milton, throughout his invocations, confronts the Satanic potential in his epic project ("if all be mine, / Not Hers who brings it nightly to my ear" [PL 9.46-47]), and just as the incapacitation of the Satanic impulse within himself corresponds with...