...Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove,...

...spake the apostate angel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair : ». Thus Satan Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables naine of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on...

...this dire Calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from Hope, If not what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest Mate With Head up-lift...extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on...

...action: here, for example, is the first heroic simile, which depicts the size of the fallen Satan: his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian. or Earth-born, that warr'd on...

...Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling bla2ed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge0 As whom the fables name of monstrous si2e, Titanian, or Earth-bom, that warred on...

...to have had this in his Eye, where he describes .Sa/an in the same Posture; his other Parts beside, Prone on the Flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a Rood.' 1 In ancient geography, the country of the Iberi (Ibères), lying between the Caucasus and Armenia,...

...appeared to answer the words of Milton: With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, 33 For others, such was this creature's...

...he lies extended many a rood"; bei Milton (Paraäise Lost, Buch l, Zeilen 195f.) heißt es: „Frone on the flood, extended long and large / Lay floating many a rood, in bulk äs huge." 67 Vgl. „The South: Old or New?", Sewanee Review 27, April 1928, 139-47, und „The...

...view of hope as land, and as self-referential and self-dependent: Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That...extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove,...

...the fallen Satan is clearly a giant: With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on...