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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
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