 | Herschel S. Porter - 1854 - 412 sidor
...the elements of endless misery. What the epic poet affirmed of Satan may be applied to them : — " Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and...bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him hell II« brings, and round about him, nor from bell One step, no more than from himael^ can 11; By change... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 sidor
...mental states. This explains why Satan cannot escape his fate: horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stir The Hell within...more than from himself can fly By change of place. (IV. 18-13) After the fall, Michael even begins to speak disdainfully of the "narrow bounds" of Eden... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - 1989 - 276 sidor
...reflection. The following text illustrates my point: And like a devilish engine back recoils Upon himself. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and...change of place. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd; wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 sidor
...Horace, providing another layer of gloss on the matter of false claims. 16. Note that the line continues "(within him Hell / He brings), and round about him, nor from Hell / One step . . . etc." — the concentricity is pointed up even more by "round about him." Incidentally, I note... | |
 | Rachel Jacoff, Robert Ball - 1991 - 364 sidor
...vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5.1.58—65 For within him hell He brings, and round about him,...more than from himself can fly By change of place. Milton, Paradise Lost 4.20-23 In the tenth canto of the Inferno, Dante the pilgrim meets Cavalcante... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 sidor
...essentially a condition of the demonic self. As the narrator shrewdly remarks upon Satan's arrival on earth: "for within him Hell / He brings, and round about...more than from himself can fly / By change of place" (4.20-23). In like fashion, we learn out of Satan's own mouth, "Which way I fly is Hell, myself am... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 sidor
...troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The Hell within him; for within him Hell 20 He brings,347 and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more...than from himself, can fly By change of place. Now conscience348 wakes despair That slumbered; wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what... | |
 | André Verbart - 1995 - 322 sidor
...describes his inner state: horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings,...and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more then from himself can fly By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair That slumberd, wakes the... | |
 | John Martin Evans - 1996 - 220 sidor
...the characters in Paradise Lost he seems to be the most impervious to assimilation by any "other": for within him Hell He brings, and round about him,...more than from himself can fly By change of place. (4.20-23) Like the archetypal empire-builder that he is, the Devil is determined to give the New World... | |
 | Tom Bradley - 1999 - 340 sidor
...(610)519-0261 Printed in the United States of America Printed on Recycled Paper Published April 1999 ... horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and...more than from himself can fly By change of place.. . Paradise Lost IV, 18-23 "I'm humble duck shit. But you've been everywhere and seen everything. Advise... | |
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Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place. 
