 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...of gold," the Babe new born must redeem us on the cross, and afterward return for the Last Judgment: And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins. . . . 44. Hence Milton's statement, at the beginning of Paradise Lost, that his story moves from the... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - English poetry - 1986 - 328 pages
...that he can no longer deceive the nations. In the words of the poet: . . . from this happy day Th' old Dragon under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wroth to see his Kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly Horrour of his foulded tail."1 The illustration... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. (1. 97-104) 40 caine dog and a cocaine cat, They fought all night with a cocaine rat, (1. 1—4) 68 On her underground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And, wroth to see his... | |
 | John Charles Hawley - Religion - 1994 - 264 pages
...the tension. The eschatological tension culminates in a present indicative of prophetic fulfillment: "And then at last our bliss / Full and perfect is, / But now begins... ." The first present tense refers to the future (the last judgment) and the second to the past (the... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...described the birth of Christ as an event imposing limits on Satan's power: from this happy day Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway. The political and military imagery of Paradise Lost does not quantify the victory in such specific... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 440 pages
...shake, When at the world's last session, The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne. 18 And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins; for from this happy day 25. That pure time before the ages of silver, bronze, and now iron. 26. Often a tapestry; here a robe... | |
 | Betty Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott - History - 2000 - 434 pages
...colored drapery. 27. Gabriel's trumpet call when the dead will waken to be judged. Th 'old dragon 29 under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, And wrath to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. 19 The oracles... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...When at the world's last session,0 The dreadful judge in middle air shall spread his throne.0 XVIII And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But...now begins; for from this happy day The old dragon underground0 In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway, 170 And wroth to see... | |
 | Juliet Cummins - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 276 pages
...appears to share Pareus's view that Satan was partially bound at Christ's birth, pronouncing: "Th'old Dragon under ground, / In straiter limits bound, / Not half so far casts his usurped sway" (ll. 168-7o). Others of Milton's early poems - "On Time" and "At a Solemn Music" - also take... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Mayer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 278 pages
...from Revelation of Satan's binding to convey the paradox of Satan being defeated yet active: Th'old Dragon under ground. In straiter limits bound. Not half so far casts his usurped sway. And wroth to see his Kingdom fail. Swinges the scaly Horror of his folded tail. (168-72) In Paradise... | |
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