...with the slowness of a measured song and the gravity of a declamation." — Taine. ILLUSTRATIONS. " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus...

...fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Line rsi High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. Paradue Lost. Book n. Line 1 Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us. Line so. The strongest...

...and the whole passage generally, points to Milton, whose second book of Paradise Lost thus begins : High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." As we well know, the Greeks and Romans accounted all other nations barbarous ; thus Virgil : Barbarico...

...inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till Satan return. He passes on his journey to Hellgates ; finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them ;...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus...

...journey to Hell gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them ; by whom at length they arc opened, and discover to him the great gulf between...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus...

...fonntain some helated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arhitress. Line 73i High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. Paradite LOA. Book U. Line i Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us. Line 39. The strongest...

...heretical than it is, would not much edify or corrupt the present generation." PARADISE LOST.— BOOK II. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus...

...writers of English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage : — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. — Paradise Lost, ii. 1-6. But in argument or narrative, the best English writers more commonly give...

...writers of English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage: — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. — Paradise Lost, 11. 1-6. But in argument or narrative, the best English writers more commonly give...

...writers of English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage : — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. — Paradise Lost, ii. 1-6. But in argument or narrative, the best English writers more commonly give...