 Said then the lost Archangel, 'this the seat That we must change for heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?  Complete Rhetoric - Page 245by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
..."expanded wings" and stands upon a "dreary plain" to face his fate with words that win our admiration: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pages
...himself determines the goodness and beauty by fiat: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Climate. . . . That we must change for Heav'n; this mournful gloom...is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right. (1.242,244-47) Such a "sovran" cannot simply let the world be, either by accepting its pain or by welcoming... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - 1997 - 230 pages
...inhabitants. The reviewers' comment on this passage takes the form of a quotation from Paradise Lost: "Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel — (70) Birkbeck is here explicitly identified with Milton's Satan, who speaks these words on arrival... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. 7556 Paradise Lost heaven, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? 7557 Paradise Lost Farewell, happy fields Where... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - 1999 - 188 pages
...flood As gods, and by their own recover'd strength, 2(1 Not by the sufferance of supernal power. "1s this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then...archangel, "this the seat That we must change for Heaven? this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he 25 Who now is sovereign can... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 526 pages
...about in corners, and the fiddle, which was only silent when we were asleep, hung by them.'—p. 109. 'Is this the region, this the soil, the clime! Said then the lost Archangel' And is this then the state of happiness; is this 'the land of promise,' for which such multitudes cross... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 pages
...appearances, making God a being no different from himself, except in the extrinsic attribute of power: Is this the region, this the soil, the clime, Said...lost archangel, this the seat That we must change for heaven, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is sovereign can dispose... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 2001 - 376 pages
...this dire Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despair. Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch- Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?... | |
 | Joseph A. Dane - 2003 - 264 pages
...few lines from Bentley's Paradise Lost (italicized readings are those Bentley rejects or emends) : Is this the Region, this the soil, the Clime, Said...that celestial Light? Be it so, since He Who now is Sov'rain can dispose and bid What shall be right: farthest from him is best Whom Reason [hath] equal'd,... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...Stygian flood As Gods, and by thir own recover'd strength, 240 Not by the sufferance of supernal Power. Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said...gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he 245 230. hue is glossed as meaning " as- inform us, which, sometimes breaking pect" or appearance by... | |
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