...Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended...whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian or Earth-bom, that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon,229 whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that...

...Tita vencido ou ainda um monstro marinho que o navegador ignorante toma por urna ilha na escuridäo: Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood,...

...spake the apostate angel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair : ». Thus Satan Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables naine of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briaeros or Typhon, whom the...

...action: here, for example, is the first heroic simile, which depicts the size of the fallen Satan: his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended...size, Titanian. or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briarcos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan... (1.194ff.)...

...Eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large 195 Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom...size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Btiareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast 200 Leviathan, which God...

...this dire calamity. What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling bla2ed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood,...

...appeared to answer the words of Milton: With head uplift above the waves, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended...as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, 33 For others, such was this creature's conformity with dragons of antiquity, that one could almost...

...view of hope as land, and as self-referential and self-dependent: Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That...Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, who the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created...

...the fallen Satan is clearly a giant: With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended...name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan.......

...idea that the object before them could be nothing less than the great sea-serpent himself; for — "Prone on the flood, extended long and large, "Lay...as huge *As whom the fables name of monstrous size, "Leviathan, which God of all his works "Created hugest, that swim the ocean stream." "The writer fortunately...