The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (194 page)

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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel

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BOOK: The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
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4224
whether, either
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4225
winding
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4226
waterlogged
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4227
comfortable
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4228
current
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4229
“He called the dry land ‘earth’”
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4230
green
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4231
formed
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4232
grainlike
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4233
crenellated, having battlements
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4234
entangled, entwined
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4235
budded
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4236
groups of trees/shrubs
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4237
along
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4238
visit, habituate
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4239
alternately
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4240
mutation, sequence
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4241
not luminous
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4242
at first
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4243
of globular shape
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4244
residence
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4245
going, resorting
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4246
Venus
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4247
Galileo discovered that Venus, like the moon, had phases (then commonly spoken of as “horns”)
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4248
extraction, infusion, absorption
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4249
private property
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4250
with diminution seen = seen with lessened light
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4251
ruler, governor, controller
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4252
clothed, vested
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4253
glad
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4254
east-west course
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4255
flowing forces
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4256
horizontal
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4257
the sun’s
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4258
position
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4259
divided, separate
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4260
decorating
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4261
channels, inlets
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4262
smaller fish
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4263
schools
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4264
form a mass/mound in
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4265
frolicking
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4266
sprinkled, flecked
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4267
look for
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4268
watch for
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4269
smooth water
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4270
striped
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4271
rolling, surging
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4272
ungraceful
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4273
disturb violently [verb]
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4274
lukewarm
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4275
marshes
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4276
natural
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4277
downy, unfledged
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4278
maturely feathered
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4279
collect
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4280
full-grown feathers
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4281
high
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4282
harsh birdcalls
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4283
looked down on
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4284
in visual survey from the ground, the mass of birds resembles a cloud
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4285
i.e., of the sky
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4286
arranged
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4287
a pattern
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4288
cleave, drive (as per their wedgelike, triangular formation)
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4289
understanding
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4290
reciprocal: those behind, it was said, rested their heads on those in front
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4291
moves gently, undulates
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4292
made a cheerful place of
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4293
evening
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4294
grave, impressive
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4295
songs
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4296
spread out, one after the other
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4297
wet spot, wetness
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4298
[verb]
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4299
trumpetlike call [noun]
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4300
the peacock
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4301
filled
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4302
proclaimed, honored
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4303
(1) birdsong [if a noun], or (2) morning [if an adjective modifying “harps”]
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4304
of her sort/kind/species
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4305
brought forth
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4306
dwells
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4307
brushwood
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4308
the wild beasts of the wood
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4309
cattle
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4310
come into being
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4311
earth
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4312
rearing
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4313
brindled, streaked
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4314
lynx
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4315
leopard
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4316
see Job 40:15–24
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4317
like
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4318
hesitating
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4319
[
be
tween]
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4320
hippo = horse, potamus = of the river: Milton here translates the Greek
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4321
flexible
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4322
tails
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4323
parts of the body
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4324
finished, perfect
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4325
marking with stripes
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4326
tracks
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4327
very small creatures
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4328
size
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4329
enwrapped
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4330
[adjective]
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4331
ant
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4332
crowded [popular?]
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4333
most artful, trickiest
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4334
frightful, terrorizing
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4335
hurtful
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4336
supremely, perfected
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4337
goal, purpose
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4338
face down
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4339
savage
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4340
holy feelings
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4341
face
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4342
noble
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4343
be harmonious with, answer to
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4344
likeness
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4345
men
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4346
exact [adjective]
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4347
breeding, generation
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4348
control, cultivate
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4349
differentiated, distinguishable
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4350
die-est
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4351
fulfilling
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4352
[the syntax here is uncertain, though the intended meaning is not]
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4353
procession
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4354
heavenly, exalted
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4355
procession
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4356
belt, girdle
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4357
abided
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4358
the stop on a stringed instrument
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4359
produced
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4360
that which is created
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4361
injure
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4362
limit
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4363
the waters above the firmament
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4364
boundless, immeasurable: the reference is to the new world, not to the hyaline
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4365
[first syllable accented]
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4366
lower
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4367
surrounded
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4368
raised
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4369
visible state, external appearance
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4370
so that
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4371
need
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4372
under a spell: i.e., “charm,” as in magic spells
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4373
immobile
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4374
(1) teller of history, (2) teller of stories
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4375
amply, fully
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4376
inscrutable
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4377
solving
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4378
structure, fabric
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4379
indicates
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4380
daily
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