The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (193 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
4069
dark, dismal
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4070
[four syllables, first and third accented]
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4071
scourges, wounds, afflictions
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4080
unbearable, intolerable
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4081
falling headlong, falling into ruins [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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4083
disordered, confused
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4084
defeated army
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4085
opening wide
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4088
joyful shouts
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4090
be cautious, take warning
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4093
like him, together with him
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4095
spiteful injury
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4096
once and for all, forever
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4097
as companion
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4098
weaker partner, Eve
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4099
i.e., Christ
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4100
“heavenly”: muse of astronomy
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4101
Bellerophon’s flying horse
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4102
i.e., “above” (beyond) pagan inspiration
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4103
live, keep company
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4104
breathed in
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4105
of thy blending/alloying/preparation
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4106
surroundings
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4107
Bellerophon was unhorsed by Zeus, when attempting to fly up to the gods’ home
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4108
to which Bellerophon fell when unhorsed
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4109
wandering aimless, straying (as Bellerophon had done)
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4110
lost, abandoned
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4111
enclosed, contained, confined
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4112
diurnal sphere: the sphere that revolves daily around the earth
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4113
swept away, carried
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4114
above the pole = into Heaven
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4115
compassed round = surrounded
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4116
group or class of persons, here Bacchantes or worshipers of Bacchus
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4118
mountain range in Thrace, sacred to Bacchus
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4120
Calliope, muse of epic poetry
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4122
ignore, disdain
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4123
unsteady, not fixed
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4124
partner in marriage
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4126
pensiveness
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4128
astonishing, unknown
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4129
disorder, commotion
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4130
turned back
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4131
dismissed, abandoned
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4136
deigned, condescended
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4137
courteously, generously
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4138
encompassing
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4139
interspersed, poured in
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4140
flowering, blooming, bright
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4145
creating, begetting
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4150
send away, allow to depart
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4151
supplicated
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4152
gain, reach
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4153
make, show, prove
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4157
hidden, kept secret
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4158
Lucifer, the morning star
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4160
position, place
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4161
occupy, hold
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4163
services (in the religious sense)
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4168
loosely, at ease
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4177
naturally [trisyllabic, second accented, “-eous” elided]
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4181
all-creating
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4183
inscribe/draw a circular line/boundary
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4187
(1) earthy, gritty, sedimentary, (2) hellish
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4189
collected and compacted
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4193
the fifth essence, of which substance the heavenly bodies were thought to be composed
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4196
stayed for a while, tarried
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4198
blowing, sent out
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4199
firm or solid structure
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4200
division, distribution
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4201
ambient, flowing around
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4205
[trisyllabic, second accented, “-uous” elided]
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4206
disturb, disorder, derange
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4207
embryo [trisyllabic, second accented]
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4209
uselessly, pointless
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4210
fertilizing
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4211
fluids, essences
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4214
swelling, bulging
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4216
great speed
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4219
beds, lines
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4221
rushing [adjective]
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