The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (202 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
5452
triumphed over
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5453
i.e., only once
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5454
extreme hunger
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5456
depress, frustrate
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5457
relate/transmit as a tradition [verb]
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5458
spread about
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5460
“snake”: a Titan, first ruler of Olympus
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5461
“wide-ruling”: Ophion’s wife
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5462
i.e., more or less the pagan equivalent of Eve?
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5463
Ops/Rhea/Cybele: wife of Cronos
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5464
Dictaean Jove = Dicte, mountain in Crete, where Jove/Jupiter/Zeus grew up
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5465
at one time
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5466
actuated/made actual by Adam and Eve
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5467
see Revelation 6:8
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5469
suffer, am tormented/troubled
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5471
not limited/bound by his body
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5472
a body, living or dead
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5473
plain, rude
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5474
mercilessly
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5475
in different
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5477
consume, diminish, destroy
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5478
devastate, destroy
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5479
attribute, ascribe
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5480
permit, allow
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5481
winking, tactly permitting
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5482
reward, oblige
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5483
carried away
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5484
renounced, abandoned
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5485
at random = without consideration/care/control, purposelessly, heedlessly
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5486
dregs, refuse
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5487
till the time when
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5488
filled/stuffed to excess
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5489
glutted, satiated
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5491
sucked-dry?
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5492
chokingly/sickeningly overfilled
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5493
garbage, rubbish, putrid flesh
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5494
throw, fling
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5496
will obstruct
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5497
saintliness, holiness
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5498
takes precedence
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5500
weaken, lessen
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5501
i.e., next they sang
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5502
different tasks/responsibilities/mandates
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5504
order, authoritative command
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5505
feeble, worn out
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5506
connected with the solstice, i.e., when the sun is halfway between the two equinoxes and, in the summer, at its farthest point from the equator
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5507
pale, white
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5509
relative positions of the planets, as seen from the earth
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5510
two heavenly bodies at 60-degree angles from one another (60 degrees = one-sixth of the whole zodiac)
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5511
two heavenly bodies at 90-degree angles from one another
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5512
two heavenly bodies at 120-degree angles from one another
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5513
two heavenly bodies at 180-degree angles from one another
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5514
harmful, unwholesome
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5515
conjunction
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5516
the fixed = the fixed stars, in the eighth of the heavenly spheres
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5517
stormy, passionate [trisyllabic, second accented, “-uous” elided]
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5518
north, east, south, west
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5519
storming, raging
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5520
throw into confusion/disorder
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5522
at a slanting angle
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5523
centric globe = the earth, which was at the center
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5524
Apollo’s chariot
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5525
celestial equator
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5528
the Pleiades
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5531
(1) without delay, rapidly, (2) exceedingly
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5538
make up for
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5540
strait at the extreme southern tip of South America
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5541
i.e., when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit
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5542
Atreus, Thyestes’ brother, killed Thyestes’ sons and served them to their father at a banquet
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5543
world inhabited = inhabited world
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5544
nipping, painful
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5546
from the malign stars
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5547
New England
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5548
Samoed shore = Siberia
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5549
i.e., the cave of the winds, in which Aeolus, god of the winds, kept the winds in confinement, when they were not blowing
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5550
burst of wind
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5551
a north wind
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5552
a north wind
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5553
a north wind
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5554
a north wind
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5555
the opposite
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5556
a south wind
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5557
a south wind
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5558
Sierra Leone, in Africa
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5559
thwart of = across
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5561
Euras/Levant is an east wind
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5562
Ponent/Zephyr is a west wind
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5563
coming from the horizon: east/west rather than north/south
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5564
clamor, loud/harsh sound
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5565
a southeast wind
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5566
a southwest wind
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5567
riot, violence
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5568
irrational creatures [probably, from Latin influence, four syllables, first and third accented]
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5569
settled aversion, contrariety of feeling/disposition
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5570
leaving off
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5571
fierce, savage
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5572
from without = in addition to
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5573
“he, Adam, sought”
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5574
from, instead of
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5576
from, instead of
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5577
it would be well/all right
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5579
satisfy, be useful, answer the requirements, meet the needs of the case, suit, fit
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5580
multiplied, spread
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5583
mine own = mine own curses
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5584
remain, continue
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5585
flowing back
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5586
surge, turn back
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5587
fall, descend
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5588
proper order
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5590
luxurious, highly pleasing
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5593
himself, Adam
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5594
himself, Adam
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