The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (196 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
4537
understanding
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4538
pressed forward, presumptuously
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4539
filled, fully stocked
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4540
exercise, frolic
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4541
diversion, entertainment
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4542
wield, sustain
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4543
intercessory prayer
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4544
favorably inclined
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4545
be suitable
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4546
eager, ardent
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4547
lacking force/energy
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4548
wearisome, annoying, disagreeable
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4549
mutually, to each
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4551
companion, partner
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4554
closely reasoned, discriminating
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4556
discourse, interchange of thoughts and words
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4557
comfort, alleviate, soothe
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4558
complete, perfect
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4559
display, prove
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4560
imperfection in being single/solitary
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4563
seclusion, mysteriousness
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4564
birds, beasts, fish, etc.
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4569
adduced, proposed
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4570
remained, endured
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4573
surpasses, is superior to
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4574
restoration
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4575
held apart, separated
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4576
was able to see
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4577
restorative
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4578
inferior, poor
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4579
instilled, insinuated
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4580
manner, appearance
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4581
in order to
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4586
“given (by You) grudgingly/with reluctance”
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4587
drawn forth, obtained
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4588
brought forth, produced, created
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4594
dutiful, compliant
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4597
statement/speech/discourse
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4598
most choice
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4599
joyous feeling
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4601
frolicking, gamboling
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4602
nightingale
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4603
a marriage poem
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4605
strong, passionate
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4612
highly finished
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4613
principal goal
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4614
which most excel = which are by and large those that are superior
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4616
reduced, lowered
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4617
loosens, goes slack
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4620
as if she were
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4622
incidentally
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4623
finish, complete
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4625
distrusting, lacking confidence in
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4626
discard, reject, send away
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4627
ascribing, assigning
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4628
i.e., self-esteem
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4630
appearances
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4631
worthy of/commanding profound respect
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4633
procreative
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4634
judge, consider
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4635
full of divine grace
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4636
acts of decorum, proprieties
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4638
[verb, second syllable accented]
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4639
frustrated, defeated
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4640
statements, arguments
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4641
lines 609–10: “I who deal with all sorts of arguments, presented to me (my mind) by my bodily senses….
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4642
emitted radiance
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4643
having virtues/powers
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4644
in eminence = in eminent measure (i.e., even more)
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4645
exclusionary, excluding
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4646
restricting, limited
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4647
(1) conducting way, passage, (2) management, skill, artifice
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4648
Cape Verde Islands, in the Atlantic off northwestern Africa
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4649
in the west
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4650
first of all = primarily
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4651
allow, permit, consent to
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4652
happiness, welfare
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4653
free choice
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4655
courteous, noble
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4657
circled around
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4658
i.e., while the serpent is sleeping
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4660
attack, assault, try to seduce
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4662
intensity, strength, ardor
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4663
i.e., quarrel, disagree
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4664
i.e., God or an Angel guest “sitting indulgent” with Adam, as with a friend
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4665
familiar used = treated affably, intimately, courteously
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4666
good-humored
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4668
country-style
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4672
(of poetry/music)
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4673
breaking of relations
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4676
theme, subject
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4677
fierce, hard, merciless
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4678
Hector, prince of Troy
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4679
Hector, in great fear, tried to escape Achilles by running away, and was caught after a chase that went three times around Troy’s walls
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4680
Italian king
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4681
Turnus’ promised bride, given to Aeneas instead
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4682
betrothal (engagement) broken off
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4683
Neptune’s ire = Neptune’s anger at Odysseus for killing Neptune’s son, Polyphemus
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4684
Juno’s anger stems from (1) the beauty contest, which she did not win, and which Venus did, the judge being Aeneas’ brother, Paris, and (2) the peril Aeneas poses to Carthage, a city sacred to Juno
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