Sign in or register
for additional privileges

Scalar Milton

Evan Thomas, Milton Group8, Milton Group7, Milton Group6, Milton Group5, Milton Group4, Milton Group3, Milton Group2, Milton Group1, Milton Group9, Authors

You appear to be using an older verion of Internet Explorer. For the best experience please upgrade your IE version or switch to a another web browser.

Hurling defiance

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

This verse seems declatory of the Action expressed in the two preceding, the Reprobate Spirits making a dreadful Noise on their clattering Shields, turned they disdainful Eyes up towards Heaven, in Looks that bid Defiance to the Almighty
Comment on this page
 

Discussion of "Hurling defiance"

Add your voice to this discussion.

Checking your signed in status ...


Related:  PhlegraBelus or SerapisTears such as Angels weepto have thir lot in painwhen Ægypt with Assyria stroveStood like a Towrimpiousthey relateFrom wing to wing, and half enclose him roundThen that small infantry warr'd on by Cranesshall fail to re-ascendRifl'd the bowels of thir motherfamebeatificMyriadsremorseauxiliarHorizontal misty AirCressetsbossy SculpturesMammonArmoricBabelWords interwoveThe fellows of his crime, the followers ratherWas not ingloriousBullionfretted Goldwing'd with speedIliumBisertapuissantamerc'tconsiderate Pride Waiting revengegrieslyDistends with prideSits ArbitressNaphthaAll her Original brightnessStands on the blasted Heathupheld by old reputeDamasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,assaydth' eventin Bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness coverTheb'sSovranPandæmoniumBrusht with the hiss of russling wingssome belated PeasantCould merit moreAspramontMonuments of FameHow such united force of Gods, how suchthir stately growthHateful to utteror Romanceguilefor his faultpresagingconclaveThir Glory witherdHe spakeBrowesbut what power of mindUthersBaptiz'd or InfidelHeav'ns pavement, trod'n GoldWarr'd on by Cranescustomecruel his eyeSpace may produce new WorldsMulciberThitherSat on his faded cheekSeraphic Lords and CherubimThir visagesthese beyond Compare of mortal prowessattention held them muteMemphianPeeragePigmean RaceThat in his womb was hid metallic OreBabilonscurffAs when Heavens FirePaynimFontarabbiaribs of GoldIn shape and gesture proudly eminentSwarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n.Shorn of his Beamsand what resoundsimbodiedDeep scars of Thunder hadveins of liquid fireBrigadSelf-rais'd, and repossesshardening in this strength gloriesdownward bentPionersAs when the SunDoricMonarch in Heav'nawfulBegirtPerplexes Monarchshis Regal State [ 640 ] Put forth at fullwho overcomes By forceOf dauntless courageWhich tempted our attemptWhen CharlemainrepulseAusonianintrenchtHath scath'd the Forrest Oakstestifiesbut half his foeEternal Splendors flung [ 610 ] For his revoltabout the Hive [ 770 ] In clustersCherubimAlcairodim EclipsNew rub'd with Baum