 | Walter S. H. Lim - 2006 - 314 pages
...as China and India. In Paradise Lost Satan is directly associated with the world of the Orient: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. (PL 2: 1-6) Recalling Spenser's symbolic description of Lucifera's... | |
 | Terry Eagleton - 2006 - 193 pages
...lines of Book 2 of Paradise Lost, in which Milton introduces us to Satan on his kingly throne: High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...East with richest hand Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat ... The appearance of Satan is deferred to the fifth line, as with... | |
 | Balachandra Rajan, Joseph A. Wittreich - 2006 - 209 pages
...poised on these lines, and as we turn the page, the imagination opens the doors to the interior: 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, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pages
...soon quit and learn to kneel.32 Milton's Satan, who refuses to kneel, sits on a throne that outshines "the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, / Or where the gorgeous...hand / Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold" (2.1—4). Among the countries Adam may have seen "in Spirit" from the Hill of Paradise, Milton's narrator... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2008 - 17 pages
...not freedom.20 At the beginning of Book 2, Satan sits inside Pandemonium like an eastern king: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. (2.1-4) 19 Milton, Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Merritt Y. Hughes (New York: Macmillan, 1957),... | |
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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... 
