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From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...

Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711 - Page 26
by John Milton - 1801
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Paradise Lost and the Classical Epic

Francis C. Blessington - Epic poetry, Classical - 1979 - 126 pages

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Reading Paradise Lost

Robert Crosman - Fall of man in literature - 1980 - 288 pages

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The Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 2003 - 596 pages

...a great passage from Paradise Lost: "In Ausonian land / Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell / From heav'n, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove / Sheer...he fell, from noon to dewy eve, / A summer's day" (I, 739-744). It is also, for Emerson, oddly orthodox. 14 STRIKE A DISCORD . . . ACCORD The process...

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