 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1867 - 548 páginas
...our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for from this happy day, Th' old Dragon underground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swindgcs the scaly horror of his folded tail. The oracles arc dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through... | |
 | 1909 - 502 páginas
...Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. XVIII And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day The Old Dragon...usurped sway, And, wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horror of his folded tail. XIX The Oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - 1986 - 328 páginas
...that he can no longer deceive the nations. In the words of the poet: . . . from this happy day Th' old Dragon under ground In straiter limits bound,...his usurped sway, And wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail."1 The illustration shows the dragon, Satan, cast down... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...our bliss Full and perfect is. But now begins; for from this happy day The old Dragon underground. Colvill, 0 sairer, sail IT akes my head; And sairer,...you be dead. (1. 33—36) EnSB; ESPB; FaBoBa; GBP; (1. 137-144) 41 But see, the Virgin blest Hath laid her Babe to rest: Time is our tedious song should... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - 1994 - 264 páginas
...dreadful judge in middle air shall spread his throne. And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day The old dragon...fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. (Milton 1971a: II. 149-172) The imaginative leap to the last trumpet, followed by a return to the present,... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day Th' old Dragon under-ground15 In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170 And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 1995 - 216 páginas
...described the birth of Christ as an event imposing limits on Satan's power: from this happy day Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway. The political and military imagery of Paradise Lost does not quantify the victory in such specific... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - 2000 - 434 páginas
...colored drapery. 27. Gabriel's trumpet call when the dead will waken to be judged. Th 'old dragon 29 under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wrath to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles are dumb,... | |
 | Juliet Cummins - 2003 - 276 páginas
...appears to share Pareus's view that Satan was partially bound at Christ's birth, pronouncing: "Th'old Dragon under ground, / In straiter limits bound, / Not half so far casts his usurped sway" (ll. 168-7o). Others of Milton's early poems - "On Time" and "At a Solemn Music" - also take time or... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day The old dragon underground0 In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170 And wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.0 XIX The oracles... | |
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Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 
