...870 In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act, won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right: So standing, moving, or to...

...passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturb'd, yet comely, and in act Rais'd, as of some great matter to begin. As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens or free...Eloquence Flourish'd, since mute, to some great cause addrest. Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue,...

...Rais'd, as of som great matter to begin, as in olden days a famed orator of Athens or Rome would stand 'in himself collected', while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of Preface brooking through his Zeal of Right. So standing, moving, or to...

...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act, won audience ere the tongue Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right : So standing, moving, or to...

...she does not appear to recognize his histrionics when he raises himself and prepares his new assault: As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens or free...Eloquence Flourish'd, since mute, to some great cause addrest, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue, Stood in himself collected, while each part,...

...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in height began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right. So standing, moving, or to height...

...conclusion. Just before this speech Milton offers a brilliant epic simile of the classical orator: As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens or free...Eloquence Flourish'd, since mute, to some great cause addrest, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue,...

...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right. So standing, moving, or to...

...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue [...]. (PL 9: 668-74) Then Satan plunges in "in highth", without preface, imitating Cato's first oration...

...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began . . . (Paradise Lost, ix. 665—75) So complex, by this stage, is Milton's handling of...