The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (185 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
2847
evil demon in Apocryphal book of the Bible, Tobit, who has seven times killed the husbands of Sarah, daughter of Tobit’s relative, with whom the demon is in love; he is finally driven off by fish smells
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2849
sent him, the demon, away from Media, where Tobit, his son, and his wife lived
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2851
by the Angel Raphael, sent by God
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2852
wild, uncultivated
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2854
troubled, entangled
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2857
made of interwoven branches
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2858
stalls, pens
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2859
reduce the store of money
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2860
of the roof
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2862
the view it afforded him
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2863
had been = would have been
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2864
guarantee, promise
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2868
Haran, city on the River Euphrates, in Mesopotamia
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2869
city near Babylon, on the River Tigris
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2870
city in Eden
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2871
[four syllables, first and third accented]
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2872
tangled, heavily wooded
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2873
swallowed up
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2874
formed, fashioned (as a potter “throws” a pot)
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2875
garden topsoil
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2878
underground
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2880
in different directions [bisyllabic, first accented]
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2884
winding, labyrinthine
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2886
fussy, fastidious
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2887
skillful, choice, exquisite
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2888
gracious, bountiful, jolly
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2889
i.e., darkened
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2890
[four syllables, first and third accented]
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2891
legendary garden in which the Hesperides, daughters of Night and Darkness, guarded a tree that bore golden apples
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2892
open expanse of treeless pastureland
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2894
bearing palm trees
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2895
a hollow among hills
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2896
irrigated [probably trisyllabic, second accented]
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2900
bring into operation
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2901
make tuneful/harmonious
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2903
Aglaia (brilliance), Euphrosyne (joy), Thalia (blossoming)
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2904
female divinities presiding over seasonal changes
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2906
Dis = Pluto = Hades
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2907
Nature/earth goddess, later Demeter; mother of Proserpine/Persephone
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2908
like Proserpine, pursued by lustful gods
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2909
river in Syria
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2910
the grove of Daphne contained an oracle dedicated to Apollo
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2911
named after the spring at the oracle in Delphi, also dedicated to Apollo
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2913
the island of Nysa, in the River Triton in Tunisia
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2914
encircled, surrounded
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2916
Zeus’ nurse, mother of Bacchus by Ammon
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2917
red-faced (from wine)
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2918
Abyssinian/Ethiopian
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2919
offspring, children
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2920
in Abyssinia
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2925
exalted, lofty
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2926
manifested, made plain/clear
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2927
(1) curled,
or
(2) scented,
or
(3) dark-colored
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2928
lock of hair in front
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2930
frisky, sportive
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2931
requested, demanded
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2932
authority, rule
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2933
shy, modest
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2934
mysterious parts = genitalia
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2935
i.e., unchaste
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2936
externals, displays
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2938
grassy spot
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2940
the west wind
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2941
sweet as nectar [adjective]
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2942
obliging, yielding
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2944
discourse, speech
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2946
animals that are hunted [noun]
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2949
moving lightly up and down
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2950
(1) lynx, (2) panther
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2952
capered, danced
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2953
coiled, twisted
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2954
flexible, pliant, supple
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2955
trunk, nose
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2959
rope, twine, knots
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2960
intertwined, braided
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2961
tail, long dragging body
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2962
destined, fated
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2964
i.e., with eating the grass that grows on pastureland
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2965
(1) digesting, as ruminants do, (2) reflecting
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2966
slanting down
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2967
steeply downward
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2968
racelike, galloping speed
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2969
the Azores, to the west
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2970
with a scale having two weighing pans, when one (lighter) goes up the other (heavier) necessarily goes down made device
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2971
place, position
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2972
“hath poured on their shape”
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2973
noble, excellent
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2975
firmly fixed, safe
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2977
abandoned, lost, doomed
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2978
I am myself
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2980
direct, honest
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2983
did wrong me
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2985
common, community, patriotic
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2987
condition, circumstances
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2988
noted, observed
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