...Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving. JOHN BUNYAN 129 On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. In dealing with a poet of such magnificent qualities one should be wary...

...reverberation of that mighty sound which has filled the world since Sin opened the gates of destruction: 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. In prose, the same attention to...

...opening of gates : Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving. On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. In dealing with a poet of such magnificent qualities one should be wary...

...intricate wards, and every Bolt and Bar Of massy Iron or solid Rock with ease Unfast'ns : on a sudden op'n fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on thir hinges grate Harsh Thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She op'n'd, but to shut Excell'd...

...wards, and every bolt and bar Of massy iron or solid rock with ease Unfastens: on a sudden open fly, 8?' Zt qIKV>W> hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She open'd, but to shut Excell'd...

...Paradise Lost. In describing the opening of the gates of hell, Milton does so in the following words : — On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — Contrast it with the smoothness of the opening of the gates of heaven...

...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 —...

...copied from a book of no greater authority, in describing the gates of hell. Book 2. v. 879. he says, On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. In the history of Don Bellianis, when one of the knights approaches, as...

...passing arrow in this line of Virgil; . . . and the creaking of hell-gates, in the description by Milton; Open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th ' infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. [II, 879-82] But many beauties of this kind, which the moderns, and perhaps...

...following description, which he has given, of the opening of the infernal gates without some emotion, — 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 Or the applause of Satan's reply...