The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems (206 page)
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Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
6049
came on = advanced, came forward
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6050
serious, weighty, somber
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6051
negotiate, deal
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6056
god of marriage
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6057
before anything else?
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6061
pieces of music
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6062
seized sympathetically
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6063
confess, acknowledge
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6065
foreshadows
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6066
goals, purposes
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6067
proper, fitting
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6070
unusual, uncommon
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6074
snares, tricks
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6075
at large = fully, when God sends down the Flood
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6076
robbed, deprived
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6078
crooked, devious
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6079
spiritless, oppressive
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6081
man’s woe = wo-man
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6082
country, rustic
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6084
prowess, fame
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6086
choice [adjective]
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6089
with life = alive
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6090
[bisyllabic]
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6094
battering rams
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6096
underground passages filled with gunpowder, which is then set off
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6098
[bisyllabic]
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6101
i.e., split into parties
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6102
Enoch: see Genesis 5:21–24
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6103
behavior, deportment
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6105
perished, been destroyed
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6106
[trisyllabic]
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6108
join in marriage
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6110
strength, power
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6113
therefore hated = who was therefore hated
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6114
assailed, invested, surrounded
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6119
eternal bliss
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6120
it came about, happened, occurred
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6124
wherever they
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6126
in large = a great deal
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6128
i.e., the clouds’
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6129
violently, with full force
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6130
with great force [trisyllabic, second accented, “-uous” elided]
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6131
brought forth young
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6133
not long before
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6135
barely, with difficulty
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6136
dealt out, given
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6137
descend, fall
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6138
whom to warn = able to be warned
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6139
be destroyed
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6140
booty, spoil, plunder
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6142
self-indulgence, capriciousness
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6147
debased, degraded
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6150
“good against that which is being done”
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6154
proclaiming
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6155
stubbornness
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6156
wreck, ruin
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6159
producing hornlike branches, as it divides and each branch flows on
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6161
the Euphrates?
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6162
(1) the Perisan Gulf, in particular, or (2) the deep, in general
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6165
harsh screams [noun]
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6166
[trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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6167
no sanctity
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6170
declined, dwindled
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6173
quick-moving
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6178
flowing water, here ebbing
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6180
more trustworthy/steadfast/reliable
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6182
fall, descend
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6183
calm, tranquil
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6187
banded, striped
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6191
extended, spread out
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6193
border, edge
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6195
give up, resign, surrender
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6196
not long before
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6198
i.e., of having created man in the first place
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6203
leaves off, breaks away
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6204
determined, set
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