...The luminous inferior orbs inclosed From chaos and th' inroad of darkness old, Satan alighted walks. -On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' internal doors. Wherein remain'd, For what could else? to our almighty foe Clear victory, to our part...

...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," &c. I in great transport threw open the door ot my chamber, and found...

...attempt, one of many in Milton. The grating noise of the opening of hell's gates is described thus : — " On a sudden, open fly, With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors ; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder." Contrast the opening of heaven's doors : — " Heaven opened wide Her...

...huntsman, with clang aud clatter, and whoop and halloo, that made the ¡'urente ring 1" — Irving. " On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring...and on their hmges grate Harsh thunder."— Milton. " Heaven opened wide Her ever-daring gates, harmonious sound On golden hinges turning." — Milton....

...confounded by the glimpses which we catch of the infinite glories of the Uncreated and Eternal. Or " On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors," and the archangel ruined stands before us, with his compeers — sublime in intellect, degraded by sin,...

...turns Th' intricate wards, and every bolt and bar Of massy iron or solid rock with ease Unfastens : 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 open'd, but to shut Excell'd...

...803. Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled. Booh ii. Liste 845. On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. Booh ii. Line 879. Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold...

...discriminates the Bounds of the opening of Heaven's gates, from those of Hell. »u the following passages: " On a sudden, open fly, With impetuous recoil, and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors; and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder." "Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sonnd, On golden...

...shore, The hoarse, rough verso should like the torrent roar. POPE : E**ay on Criticism, On a sadden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grata Harsh thunder. — Mil, TON: Paradim Lott, ti. (Irate on their scrannel pipes of wretched...

...the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. POPE : Essay on Criticism. On a sudden open fly, "With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — MILTON : Paradise Lost, ii. Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched...