The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (205 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
5900
compared to
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5902
accustomed as we are
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5903
over-fond = over-affectionate
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5904
daze, stupor, depression
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5905
carrying out, executing
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5906
secluded place
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5909
visit often [verb, second syllable accented]
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5910
(1) pleasing, (2) feeling gratitude
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5912
offspring, descendants
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5914
(1) bottom part of God’s robe, (2) outlying boundaries of His kingdom
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5916
bathed with warm lotions, cherished/roused/stirred up
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5918
[four syllables, first and third accented]
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5919
flat, level
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5920
exact, unmistakable
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5921
lofty, exalted
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5922
disputing, struggling, fighting
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5925
steeped (drugged)
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5926
sight of the future
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5928
open, visible
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5929
“…the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither. In the visions of God brought He me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain….—Ezekiel 40:1–2
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5930
range of vision
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5931
[the full verb is “lay stretched out”]
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5935
Peiping (Beijing), capital of Cathay/China
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5936
khan, emperor
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5937
capital of Temir/Tamerlane’s Tatar empire
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5938
Asian river, flowing from Turkey/Afghanistan to the Aral Sea in Siberia
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5939
Peiping (Beijing)
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5941
a Mogul capital in southern India
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5942
a Mogul capital in northern India
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5944
Hamadan, ancient summer capital of Persian kings
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5945
Isfahan, city in what is now Malaysia
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5946
Byzantium/Istanbul
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5947
Turkestan is a country in central Asia
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5949
name of Abyssinian king
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5950
now Archico, port city on the Red Sea
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5951
Mombasa, in modern Kenya
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5952
Kilwa, in modern Tanzania
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5953
Malindi, in modern Kenya
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5954
port city in what is now Mozambique
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5955
thought to be
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5956
biblical land from which King Solomon obtained gold for the building of the Temple
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5958
in modern Mauritania
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5959
d. 1002, Muslim ruler in Spain and northern Africa
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5960
Fez and Sus are both in Morocco
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5961
modern Tlemcen, in Algeria
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5962
Montezuma, Aztec emperor of Mexico
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5963
capital of the Inca empire; now Cuzco, in modern Peru
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5964
Atahuallpa, Inca ruler [five syllables, first, third, and fifth accented]
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5965
the Spanish: Geryon = monster, native to Cadiz, in Spain, who was killed by Hercules
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5966
herb used for treatment of eye diseases
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5967
medicinal herb
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5968
obliged, forced
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5970
obtain by descent
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5972
under cultivation
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5973
sward, turf
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5974
to the altar
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5977
unselected, a random choice
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5978
such as first “came to hand”
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5980
internal organs, entrails
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5981
favorable, gracious
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5982
quick, sudden
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5983
flash/movement
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5984
other’s (Cain’s) = other’s offering
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5986
poured out freely
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5987
harm, evil, misfortune
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5988
(1) action, deed, (2) crime
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5989
attested, confirmed
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5990
thickened blood
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5991
(1) natural, (2) of his birthplace
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5992
[here, though usually bisyllabic, trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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5993
“but there are many shapes”
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5994
failure to abstain
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5995
noxious, ill-smelling, offensive
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5997
violent stretching/straining
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5999
nasal discharge
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6001
deranged, lunatic
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6002
languishing, wasting
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6003
wasting, emaciation
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6004
a wasting disease
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6005
bubonic plague
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6006
swelling up of body parts
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6009
dragged, wrenched
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6011
beautiful, graceful
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6014
animal-like
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6016
transitions, journeys
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6017
natural, congenital
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6020
go/leave first
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6021
now has (in old age)
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6022
depression, stupor
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6024
concerned, intending
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6025
released, freed
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6027
duty, responsibility
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6028
rendering up = giving back
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6030
[trisyllabic]
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6032
submit, allow
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6033
“near some of the tents”
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6034
harmony, accord
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6036
rapid, flying
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6040
fused, cast
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