The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (187 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
3151
close at = near
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3153
desired, wished
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3155
blowing, breathing
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3156
infect, corrupt
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3157
disordered, ill-humored, deranged
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3160
leaps, bounds, jumps
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3161
caught unawares
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3162
nitrous powder = gunpowder
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3163
piled up, heaped
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3164
barrel, cask
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3165
military warehouse
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3167
powder of a granular texture: i.e., gunpowder
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3169
overwhelmed
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3170
horrible, ghastly
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3172
quickly, without delay
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3173
sentenced, condemned
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3174
suitable companion
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3175
i.e., in Heaven
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3179
sublime, majestic, impressive
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3182
gnashing, rattling
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3183
the strap/chain of a horse’s bit
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3184
strive or fly = fight or flee
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3185
dread combined with wonder
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3189
royal, stately
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3190
carriage, bearing
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3191
pallid, gloomy
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3194
crouching, lurking
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3196
responsibility
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3201
compensate, repay
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3202
grief, sorrow
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3203
more firmly/securely
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3204
forced confinement, imprisonment
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3206
“What a loss in Heaven is one who can judge what wisdom is!”
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3207
unauthorized, without permission
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3208
boundaries, limits
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3210
however he can
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3218
thy words at random = thy careless/heedless words
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3220
is needful/required of…. faithful leader
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3221
attempts, experiments
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3223
courses, directions, roads, paths
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3225
rumor, report
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3227
forced, pushed
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3230
declare oneself
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3232
found, searched out
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3233
slavelike, meanly
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3240
(1) easy, (2) courteous
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3242
in rage = enraged
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3243
guardian of boundaries
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3244
material force
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3245
superior, stronger
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3247
moonèd horns = crescent formation
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3248
close-packed battle array, sixteen-man-deep square, perfected by the Romans
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3249
raised/lifted and at the ready
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3250
grain (metaphorical use of the goddess’ name)
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3255
(1) wings extended, (2) expanded in size
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3256
high peak in the Canary Islands
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3257
Mt. Atlas in Mauritania, Africa
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3258
(1) holding his ground, (2) unremovable
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3260
was lacking
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3261
involved in
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3263
crash, collision, destruction
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3265
the constellation Libra (“the Scales”) is between Scorpio and Virgo/Astrea
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3268
reflects upon, weighs
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3269
i.e., the two pans of the scale
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3271
separating, breaking off
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3272
the balance beam
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3277
grumbling, complaining, muttering
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3278
i.e., responsible, without any excuse
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3279
region, realm
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3280
bright, gleaming
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3281
accustomed, in the habit
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3282
produced, developed
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3284
exhalations of a digestive kind
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3286
giving off vapors—mist and evaporation
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3287
goddess of morning
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3288
Adam’s exhalations were easily “dispersed” (dissipated, scattered) by the “fanning” motion of leaves and the “fuming” of running water
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3291
singular, special
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3292
west wind/spring breeze
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3293
goddess of flowers
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3294
early morning (either dawn or about 6
A.M
.)
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3295
note, observe
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3297
“what the myrrh tree (a gum resin) drops”
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3298
here, a balsam (pine) tree
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