 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...870 In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act, won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right: So standing, moving, or to... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturb'd, yet comely, and in act Rais'd, as of some great matter to begin. As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens or free...Eloquence Flourish'd, since mute, to some great cause addrest. Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue,... | |
 | A. J. A. Waldock - Literary Criticism - 1961 - 164 pages
...Rais'd, as of som great matter to begin, as in olden days a famed orator of Athens or Rome would stand 'in himself collected', while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of Preface brooking through his Zeal of Right. So standing, moving, or to... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act, won audience ere the tongue Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right : So standing, moving, or to... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 188 pages
...she does not appear to recognize his histrionics when he raises himself and prepares his new assault: As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens or free...Eloquence Flourish'd, since mute, to some great cause addrest, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue, Stood in himself collected, while each part,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in height began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right. So standing, moving, or to height... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...conclusion. Just before this speech Milton offers a brilliant epic simile of the classical orator: As when of old some Orator renown'd In Athens or free...Eloquence Flourish'd, since mute, to some great cause addrest, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue,... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right. So standing, moving, or to... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 566 pages
...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue [...]. (PL 9: 668-74) Then Satan plunges in "in highth", without preface, imitating Cato's first oration... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 432 pages
...renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion,...each act won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began . . . (Paradise Lost, ix. 665—75) So complex, by this stage, is Milton's handling of... | |
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Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue... 
