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...By Fontarabbia. Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess yet observ'd Their dread commander : 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 archangel ruin'd,...

...plunged and stupified in the sea of fire: He call'd so loud, that all the hollow deep Of bell resounded. gave me much anguish of heart, and to avoid being...giving her a crown. The poor thing sighed, courtesied, tc. His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the...

...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...

...eighteenth-century readers considered the "Tow'r" simile, most found themselves in agreement with Addison: "there is no single Passage in the whole Poem worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein his [Satan's] Person is described in those celebrated Lines" (S 303, 3: 85): he above the rest In shape...

...» (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,...

...we may add his Call to the fallen Angels that lay plunged and stupified in the Sea of Fire. [314-5] But there is no single Passage in the whole Poem worked...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...