...By Kontarabia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess, yet observ'd Their dread commander ; te tow'r ; his form had not yet lost Ail her original brightness, nor appcar'd Less than Archangel ruin'd,...

...epithets. We find. as was natural, only the barest allusions to what he was in his firi: estate, as eg — "He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruined...

...of his diction, in addition to suspending the sense and animating the movement of the passage: ... he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Towr ... (I, 589-591) If the verb here were to come immediately after the subject — "he stood above...

...Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tow'r; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd,...

...» (The Spectator. n° 70. Voir également n° 74). 2. Paradis perdu, 1, 589-99, traduction citée. (...)He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a lower ; hisform had yetnot lost AU her original brightness, norappeared Less than archangel ruin 'd,...

...rais'd Thir fainting courage, and dispel'd thir fears. (Bk. I, 1. 527-530) 57 Thir dread commander: rmured — "While you live, Drink! — for, once dead, you never sh Towr; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruind,...

...plunged and stupified in the Sea of Fire. [314-5] But there is no single Passage in the whole Poem worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein...and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tower, &c. [589-91] His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Character, and suitable to a created Being...

...celebrated one of Milton, wherein he gives the portrait of Satan with a dignity suitable to the subject. He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel mind, and th...

...Satan, seem to appear in every generation. Here is how Milton describes the heroic Satan of Book I: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and...

...by its immediate power, and with a sudden effect; as, in the description of Satan in Paradise Lost. He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tow'r. [I, 589-91] A second species of the sublime consists in giving a gradation to imagery. There...