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" HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat... "
Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711 - Page 29
by John Milton - 1801
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical ..., Book 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...chambers of the east, Crowned with a gemmed tiara thick embossed With studs of living light. 4. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind; Or where the gorgeous east, with richest hand, Showers on her kings, barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat. 5. His broad expanded wings Lay...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...through, directed by Chaos, the power of that place, to the sight of this new world which he sought. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings harbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence...
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The world's explorers; or, Travels and adventures

Henry William Dulcken - 1868 - 442 pages
...magnificence they saw around them. The khan sat, like the Prince of Darkness in Milton's Paradise " On a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold." Pinto gives a very detailed account of the glories of...
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Manual Latin Grammar

William Francis Allen, Joseph Henry Allen - 1868 - 158 pages
...English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, in such a passage as the following : — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." Paradise Lost, Book II. 1-5. PAET...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...requires the union of declamatory force, low pitch, slow rate, monotone, and orotund quality : — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." ment of my subject, because of its...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...gorgeous seaf] Parody of Milton [Par. Lost\ Book n. [wi ff,] * High on a throne of royal state, that far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where...on her Kings Barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sate.' Ver. 35. . A Poefs form, she placed before their eyes,] This is what Juno does to deceive Turnus,...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitrcss. Book \. Line 78i. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence....
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Stewart's Quarterly, Volume 3

1869 - 514 pages
...the formal consultation or deliberation which took place in those halla of legislation, where High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat ; But all this allows the poet to make...
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English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 1

John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...to the sight of this new world which he sought. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat ; by merit rais'd 5 To that bad eminence ; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond...
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Our Boys and Girls, Volumes 7-8

Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 pages
...second book of Paradise Lost opens with a description of a scene in Pandemonium. There, — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." The "barbaric pearl and gold," we...
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