 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 pages
...new world which he sought. HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus1 and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous east with richest...kings Barbaric pearl and gold," Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1874 - 322 pages
...of "incumbent?" Parse "resting." Is "singed" pronounced as a word of one or two syllables?" 4. "High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted Bat. Meaning of "Ormus" and of "Ind." What custom is referred to in the third and fourth lines? Parse... | |
 | Richard F. Nyrop - Persian Gulf States - 1977 - 470 pages
...so legendary that more than a century after its destruction Milton used it in Paradise Lost: "High on a Throne of Royal State, which far outshone the...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat." During the period of Hormuz' floruit, Sohar and Muscat in Oman prospered greatly from their strategic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...this sentence is unidentified. 214.21 BARBARIC PEARL AND GOLD Milton, Paradise Lost, II, 1-5: "High on a throne of royal state, which far / Outshone the...kings barbaric pearl and gold, / Satan exalted sat." 214.37 SACCHI On April 15, 1833, Emerson had written in his journal: "Few pictures please me more than... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...massive sarcasm: High on a Throne of Royal State, which farr Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of I no1, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond... | |
 | Taylor Corse - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1991 - 164 pages
...and not recall the seating of another monarch: High on a Throne of Royal State, which farr Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind , Or where the gorgeous...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat. (PL 2.1-5)" The point of this echo can best be gathered by examining the text of Virgil that Dryden... | |
 | Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Charles Homer Haskins - Social Science - 1991 - 1434 pages
...view is deliberately provided for the reader: 15 High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, . . . The arbitrary selection of a single static position creates a pictorial space with vanishing... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. (Bk. I, 1. 589-599) OBS 58 High when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, merit raised To that bad eminence; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond... | |
 | William Boulting - Travel - 1996 - 274 pages
...along that trade-route between the East and the Levant, which traversed the Persian Gulf, 1 " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." — Paradise Lost, ii. 1-6. and made... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - History - 1992 - 308 pages
...while planning to have Beelzebub impose the master plan at the end. Satan opens the parliament: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous F.ast with richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat. The throne... | |
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HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat... 
