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Babilon

Hume, Patrick. Annotations on Milton's Paradise Lost London: Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., 1695. Print.

One of the most famous Cities of the ancient World, Renowned both in Sacred and Profane Story, the Capital of the Assyrian Empire; Semiramis encompass'd it with Walls of Brick, said to be 100 Cubits high, broad enough for two Chariots to pass, and containing 48 English Miles in Circuit, so that it might well be accounted one of the Worlds Seven Wonders
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Related:  Begirt,  Could merit more,  Armoric,  All her Original brightness,  Ausonian,  Distends with pride,  Horizontal misty Air,  Mulciber,  Paynim,  Thither,  shall fail to re-ascend,  assayd,  Then that small infantry warr'd on by Cranes,  amerc't,  Stood like a Towr,  Monarch in Heav'n,  Browes,  Hurling defiance,  Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,  Aspramont,  considerate Pride Waiting revenge,  and what resounds,  In shape and gesture proudly eminent,  puissant,  Cherubim,  Thir Glory witherd,  Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,,  intrencht,  Pioners,  fame,  Memphian,  Peerage,  Swarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n.,  Thir visages,  Theb's,  they relate,  Eternal Splendors flung [ 610 ] For his revolt,  griesly,  Fontarabbia,  some belated Peasant,  Baptiz'd or Infidel,  Warr'd on by Cranes,  Alcairo,  bossy Sculptures,  Cressets,  Naphtha,  wing'd with speed,  Belus or Serapis,  Bullion,  Pandæmonium,  but half his foe,  but what power of mind,  who overcomes By force,  when Ægypt with Assyria strove,  fretted Gold,  Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks,  testifies,  Monuments of Fame,  auxiliar,  presaging,  From wing to wing, and half enclose him round,  Doric,  to have thir lot in pain,  Of dauntless courage,  repulse,  Brusht with the hiss of russling wings,  Mammon,  beatific,  Brigad,  custome,  Which tempted our attempt,  Self-rais'd, and repossess,  these beyond Compare of mortal prowess,  conclave,  or Romance,  for his fault,  in Bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover,  about the Hive [ 770 ] In clusters,  Tears such as Angels weep,  Seraphic Lords and Cherubim,  How such united force of Gods, how such,  attention held them mute,  thir stately growth,  That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,  upheld by old repute,  dim Eclips,  guile,  Sits Arbitress,  downward bent,  impious,  imbodied,  Perplexes Monarchs,  Hateful to utter,  He spake,  Deep scars of Thunder had,  awful,  Shorn of his Beams,  hardening in this strength glories,  Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother,  Sovran,  Space may produce new Worlds,  When Charlemain,  remorse,  Was not inglorious,  Sat on his faded cheek,  New rub'd with Baum,  Phlegra,  As when the Sun,  Uthers,  Stands on the blasted Heath,  scurff,  As when Heavens Fire,  Pigmean Race,  th' event,  The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,  Biserta,  his Regal State [ 640 ] Put forth at full,  ribs of Gold,  Ilium,  Babel,  cruel his eye,  Words interwove,  veins of liquid fire,  Myriads