 | John Scott Clark - American poetry - 1900 - 886 pages
...with the slowness of a measured song and the gravity of a declamation." — Taine. ILLUSTRATIONS. " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Line rsi High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. Paradue Lost. Book n. Line 1 Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us. Line so. The strongest... | |
 | 1902 - 442 pages
...and the whole passage generally, points to Milton, whose second book of Paradise Lost thus begins : High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." As we well know, the Greeks and Romans accounted all other nations barbarous ; thus Virgil : Barbarico... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 396 pages
...inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till Satan return. He passes on his journey to Hellgates ; finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them ;...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus... | |
 | John Milton - Fine books - 1903 - 694 pages
...journey to Hell gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them ; by whom at length they arc opened, and discover to him the great gulf between...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...fonntain some helated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arhitress. Line 73i High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. Paradite LOA. Book U. Line i Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us. Line 39. The strongest... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - American literature - 1903 - 318 pages
...heretical than it is, would not much edify or corrupt the present generation." PARADISE LOST.— BOOK II. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - Latin language - 1903 - 522 pages
...writers of English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage : — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. — Paradise Lost, ii. 1-6. But in argument or narrative, the best English writers more commonly give... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - Latin language - 1903 - 520 pages
...writers of English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage: — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. — Paradise Lost, 11. 1-6. But in argument or narrative, the best English writers more commonly give... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - Latin language - 1903 - 526 pages
...writers of English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, as in the following passage : — High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. — Paradise Lost, ii. 1-6. But in argument or narrative, the best English writers more commonly give... | |
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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, by merit raised To that bad eminence... 
