The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (195 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
4381
provide, supply
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4382
dark (“opaque”)
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4383
like a point, a dot
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4386
constant, unceasing
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4387
revolving, turning
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4389
ingenuity, craft, artifice
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4391
immeasurable
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4393
remote from understanding, recondite
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4394
from (“out of”)
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4398
examine, inspect
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4400
held back, kept apart
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4402
hearer, listener
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4407
mild of manner
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4409
matters, signifies
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4410
whether or not
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4411
calculate, estimate
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4412
analyze, scrutinize, examine carefully
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4413
wonder, marvel at
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4414
desire, wish
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4415
clever, ingenious
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4419
preserve, keep
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4422
at the center
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4423
not centrally placed
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4424
recurrent sequence
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4425
small circle, with its center on the circumference of another circle
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4429
gleaming, bright
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4431
ineffective
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4433
active force
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4434
in service/office
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4436
[trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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4437
allege, say
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4438
conceding (arguendo: for the purposes of argument)
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4440
confirm, ratify
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4444
continually moving forward/larger
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4445
continually moving backward/smaller
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4446
six planets
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4447
transverse, crossways
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4449
the tenth and outermost sphere, the primum mobile, which kept the other spheres in motion
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4450
[trisyllabic, second accented, “-ible” elided]
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4452
reaches, meets
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4455
clear, transparent
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4458
assigned, destined
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4459
male light = original, female light = reflected
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4461
deserted [de
sert
]
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4462
[trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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4463
habitable earth [four syllables, first and third accented]
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4464
obvious to dispute = obviously disputable
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4467
disturb, make anxious
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4470
circumstances (i.e., rich or poor)
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4471
a point on some scale of measurement
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4472
complications
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4473
afflict, trouble
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4474
at large = fully, amply
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4476
smoke, vapor
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4478
irrelevance, presumption
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4479
point, elevation
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4482
permission [bisyllabic:
suff
rance]
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4483
usual, customary, habitual
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4487
[bisyllabic:
sa
tiate]
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4488
permeated, inspired
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4489
[trisyllabic, second accented: sa
tie
ty]
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4490
courteous, indulgent
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4492
proposition
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4493
is in order/form/a structure
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4494
it happened
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4495
unfamiliar, strange [
un
couth]
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4496
dark, hidden
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4498
arranged, formed
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4499
military formation
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4500
breaking out
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4502
[trisyllabic, second accented, “-ience” elided]
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4504
ordered, commanded
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4507
led, prevailed upon
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4508
herbage, grass
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4511
gliding flow
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4512
near, alongside
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4513
moved, walked
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4514
illuminated (literally: by sunlight)
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4516
soporific, sleepy
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4517
manifestation
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4518
dwelling, habitation
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4519
needs, requires
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4520
[bisyllabic, first accented]
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4521
vividly, lifelike
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4524
famine, shortage
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4525
effect, power
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4527
close by, near
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4528
[five syllables, second and fourth accented]
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4529
look, countenance
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4531
lands, territory
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4532
oath/acknowledgment of loyalty
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4534
some (the land-bound animals)
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