Cheer names the stover many a tract
here they maÌ À KÊ maty a province wide,
Tentut the length of this terrent.
At last,
Fr de bra the wh appear'd
From surt 1 suum a fiery reciva, stretch'd
În bazaious asper, and nearer view *
Josei voi port: beams ismerable
Of rigid spews, and helmets thrver'd and shields
TEMOS, VII ÞORBS armed portray'd,
The handed powers of Satan busting on
Trà fins pedom; for they ween'd
That sed-some dry, by firts or by surprise,
Ti vil the morn of God, sad on his throne
I set the eve of his stue, the proud
Asturer: but their the arts proved fond and vain
In the mid way. Though strange to us it seem'd
A: is the are shield with mngel war,
And in bere hosting meet, who wont to meet
Se o in festivals fry and live
Caramoos, 18 sons of the great Sire,
Hymning the Eternal Father: but the shout
Of banal new began, and rushing sound
Of caset ended soon each milder thought.
High in the midst, exalted as a god.
The spostate in his son-bright chariot sat,
13% of majesty divine, enclosed
With faming cherubim and golden shields;
Then lighted from his gorgeous throne, for now
Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,
A dreadful interval; and front to front
Presented stood in terrible array
Of hideous length. Before the cloudy van,
On the rough edge of battel ere it join'd,
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,
Came towering, arm'd in adamant and gold.
Milton has raised the image in proportion to his subject. See an Essay upon Milton's Imitations of the Ancients," p. 9.-NEWTON.
To the north appeared a fiery region, and nearer to the view appeared the banded powers of Satan. It appeared a fiery region indistinctly at first, but upon nearer view it proved to. be Satan's rebel army.-NEWTON.
This image is amazingly picturesque and magnificent.