The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (192 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
3909
an Assyrian deity
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3910
fifth of the nine angelic orders
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3911
principal, first
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3913
split, cracked open
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3914
weapons, armor
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3915
destruction
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3917
countenance, face
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3918
invulnerable
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3919
vanquished, crushed
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3921
dispense with
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3923
find, discover, produce
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3927
composed of ether or similar celestial material [trisyllabic, second accented, “-eous” elided]
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3929
only seeing the surface (an erudite pun)
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3932
modified, worked
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3933
surrounding
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3936
aperture, hole
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3937
(1) distended, amplified, enlarged, (2) spread abroad
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3938
(1) opposite, (2) hostile
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3939
accomplishment
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3940
countenances
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3941
lit up, illuminated
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3944
contrivance
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3946
original elements
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3948
arranged, systematized
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3950
some of them
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3951
melt and mold, build
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3952
missive ruin = missilelike destruction
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3955
conscious Night = Night, aware of what they were doing
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3959
gleaming, radiant, resplendent
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3961
joined/formed into a company
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3963
“spy of God”
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3964
sober, serious, firm
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3965
confident [adjective, modifying “resolution”]
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3967
level, horizontal
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3968
can predict
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3969
the call to arms
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3970
in battle order
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3973
of great size
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3975
surrounded, enclosed
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3976
their face-to-face meeting
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3978
agreement, settlement
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3979
opening, revelation
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3982
bring forward
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3984
opening, aperture
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3985
uncertain, doubtful
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3986
staring, puzzled
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3987
vent = hole, here the “touch-hole”
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3988
most precise, delicate
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3992
overflowing amount
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3993
violent, forceful, rapid
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3997
loosen, open
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3998
pressed close together
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4001
discharge, explode
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4006
(1) comprehend, (2) be supported (“stand under”)
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4010
swiftly/easily
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4011
[prosodically, “When
com
ing
tow
ards
them so dread
they
saw
”]
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4012
thrown, so as to cover
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4013
attacked, intruded upon
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4014
great, solid
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4016
weighed down, crushed
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4019
hurling, throwing
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4021
disaster, wreck, ruin
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4022
judicious, deliberate
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4023
associate, sharer
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4025
sentence, judgment
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4027
the whole, the rest of Heaven
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4028
tolerated, allowed
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4029
poured, instilled
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4030
wicked, stubborn
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4031
disturbance, sedition
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4032
curbed, checked
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4034
as likes them = as they please
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4035
beyond the power of words
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4036
consider, value
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4037
serpent, snake
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4041
carried, conveyed
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4043
i.e., resembling a shower
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4044
the heavens
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4045
the jewels on the high priest Aaron’s breastplate: see Exodus 28:30
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4046
pouring-out
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4047
flashing, glistening, quivering
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4049
luminous, gleaming
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4050
drew/led back
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4051
diffused around
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4055
dutiful, obedient
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4056
usual, habitual, familiar
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4060
forming, taking
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4061
reform, win back
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