...and how he fell From Heav'n. they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve,...setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star. On Umnos th' Aegaean Isle: thus they relate, Erring. (1.738-47) This passage richly evokes the mythic...

...out of Heaven into the void, And how— in words so fair they shall forever be Quoted in Paradise: "from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos" in an arc that left Him pincer-handed with...

...how he fell0 740 From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove0 Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the Aegaean isle: thus they relate. Erring;...

...Hephaestus flung out of Olympus by Zeus: . . . from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos th' jEgcean He: thus they relate, Erring. Milton tells the ancient fable beautifully; none...

...Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lennios th' ASgcean He. (PL 1.740-46) We will note the paradoxical beauty of the language for this...

...and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve,...setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos, th' Aegean Isle. (1.739^46) In the parallels to the Bible and to the classical epics, Milton...

...and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,...setting sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the ^Egean isle. Milton, Paradise Lost, 739, etc. (1665). Muley Bugentuf, king of Morocco,...

...and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summer's day; and with the setting Sun Dropped from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Letnnos the Aegaean Isle: thus they relate, Erring...

...Lucifer's fall from Milton's Paradise Lost flared into my brain like a burning brand even as I watched: From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the zenith like a falling star. I had memorized those lines at my father's school table,...

...Hindoo Mythology, p. 336. J CoLEMiN, p. 88. || POPE'S Homer, Iliad, Book i. 11. 760-765, vol. 1. p. 39. To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and, with the setting sun, Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the JCgean isle." * These words very strikingly...