...and, to speak the Truth, I fear I made no little Noise; when presently coming to the following Lines, On a sudden open, fly, With impetuous Recoil and jarring Sound, Th' infernal Doors, and on their Hinges grate Harsh Thunder, fa, I in great Transport threw open the Door of my Chamber, and found the...

...description of the gates is very poetical, as the opening of them is full of Milton's spirit : — On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She opened, but to shut Excelled...

...circle of his Hell. 573. horrisono cardine : cf. Milton's celebrated imitation, Par. Lost, ii. 879-882 : On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. VI. 6o6.] The jEneid. 383 574. custodia, Tisiphone ; within is the Hydra,...

...part of a hair. Are the indentures drawn ? shall we be gone ? — I Henry IV., iii., I : Shakespear. On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th" internal doors. — Paradise Lost, 2 : Milton. Abruptness is sometimes characteristic of the entire...

...angel deputed by him. 3 One is more precions.] The golden key denotes the divine authority by which the priest absolves the sinners : the silver expresses...judgment requisite for the due discharge of that office. Exclaiming, " Enter, but this warning hear : He forth again departs who looks behind." As in the hinges...

...foe. Line sos. Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. Line 845. On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Linz 879. Where eldest Night And Chacs, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...

...discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd ; dire was the noise of conflict. — Milton. On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — Milton. Our wasted oil unprofitahly burns, Like hidden lamps in old...

...not articulate. Of this resemblance we meet with an exemplification in the following passages : — On a sudden open fly, • With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Milton. The impetuous arrow whizzes on the wing. — Pope. The string,...

...wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges turning." Paradise Lost : Milton. " On a sudden, open fly, With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, Th" infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder." Idem. ' ' The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmur of innumerable...

...and the accessory idea — to be associated in the comparison it suggests. Take a particular case. On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th ' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.1 Here the originating idea —...