Read The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems Online
Authors: John Milton,Burton Raffel
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Literary Collections, #Poetry, #Classics, #English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, #English poetry
6660
wrung, extorted
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6661
someone who is
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6662
profit, advantage
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6663
renounce, recant, disclaim
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6664
(1) restraint, (2) rebuff
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6666
spoken, uttered
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6667
sweet-sounding
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6668
characteristic of/belonging to forests or woods
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6670
authoritative direction/admonition
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6672
courtyards, grounds
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6673
help, serve
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6674
see Numbers 22:5 through 24:25
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6679
feigned semblance
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6681
lying down, resting
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6683
clearly, distinctly
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6684
lived in lodgings
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6685
see John 1:40
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6686
see John 1:41
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6688
displayed, exhibited
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6689
caught up = taken
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6690
Elijah: see 2 Kings 2:1–12
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6691
Bet ha-Arabah, north of the Dead Sea: see John 1:28
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6692
north of the Dead Sea: see Deuteronomy 34:3
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6693
in Samaria: see John 3:23
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6694
Salim, in Samaria: see John 3:23
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6695
stronghold east of the Dead Sea, earlier destroyed but rebuilt by Herod
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6696
the Sea of Galilee
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6697
region east of the Jordan River, between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea
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6699
laments, complaints
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6700
carried/swept away
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6701
withdraw, disappear
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6702
uphold, maintain, justify
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6703
completed, brought about, done
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6704
consecrated
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6705
(1) foreknowledge, beneficent care, (2) divine intervention
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6714
acknowledged
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6715
see Luke 2:34
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6716
murmur, complain
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6718
hides, keeps dark
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6719
extraordinarily
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6720
heavenly greeting
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6722
traversing, traveling, treading
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6724
purpose, aim
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6725
statement made in a preliminary way, hint
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6726
undisturbed
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6727
resourceless
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6729
examined, tested
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6732
a “womanizing” demon: Asmodeus in
Paradise Lost,
Book 4, line 146, and Asmodai, in
Paradise Lost,
Book 6, line 365
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6733
demonic womanizer/seducer, who usually descended upon sleeping women
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6735
well-spoken
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6737
dreadful, frightful
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6738
temperament
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6739
enervate, weaken
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6740
bring to nought, destroy
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6743
dote on = be infatuated with
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6747
nymph, attendant on Artemis, twin sister of Apollo [trisyllabic, second accented]
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6748
daughter of Oceanus, mother of Atlas [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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6749
nymph-huntress who fled from all would-be lovers [bisyllabic, first accented]
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6750
mother of Dionysus, by Zeus [trisyllabic, first and third accented]
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6751
Antiopé, seduced and impregnated by Zeus [four syllables, second and fourth accented]
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6752
rescued from a satyr by Poseidon, who then seduced her [four syllables, first and third accented]
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6753
nymph pursued by Pan and transformed into a reed to escape him [bisyllabic, first accented]
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6754
transgressions, escapades
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6755
god of the wild woods
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6756
habits, practices
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6757
Alexander the Great [trisyllabic, second accented]
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6759
Scipio Africanus, 236–183
B
.
C
., who triumphed in Spain and in the Second Punic War
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6761
a young Spanish captive to whom, it was said, he had been attracted; she loved someone else
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6763
intention, plan
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6764
(1) condition, (2) greatness, power
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6765
deliberation
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6766
foolish, insipid
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6767
encompassed
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6768
girdle/belt
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6769
see Homer’s
Iliad
, 14:214–18
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6770
i.e., “how one look from his majestic brow (seated as on the top of virtue’s hill) would….
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6771
shame, disapprove
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6773
ostentatious ornament not necessarily composed of, but resembling, feathers
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6774
whim, caprice
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6775
display of disregard
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6776
confused, destroyed
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6777
is starving
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6780
“if there were reason (cause)”
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6782
for the first time
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6783
ascribe/attribute to
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6785
extreme hunger, starvation
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6786
held intimate mental intercourse
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6787
where God directed Elijah to hide from King Ahab: see 1 Kings 17:2–3
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6788
i.e., in his dream
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6789
lentils, peas, beans (“plain/simple food”)
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6791
lifted (went up)
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6792
have knowledge of
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6793
view, landscape
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6794
shed, stall
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6795
hollow, valley
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6797
walks, passageways
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6800
having been taught
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6801
more decorously
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