10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METEOROUS»
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meteorous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
meteorous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Milton's Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style
To exemplify conjunction of provenances, we can take 'gliding meteorous' (xn.
629). Note the placing of the accent, meteorous, which is the Greek placing, not
that of English except here. In fact, it is not just Greek, but Homeric Greek.27 The
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2
The Poetical Works of John Milton
So qlielte our mother Eve, and Adam beam Well p eas'd but answer'd not ; for
now too nigh 625 Th' archangel stood, and from the other hill To their fix'd station,
all in bright array, The cherubim descended ; on the ground Glidin meteorous, ...
Not so Pope 1 44 He added not ; and Iris, from the skies, Swift as a whirlwind, on
the message flies; Meteorous, the face of Ocean sweeps, Refulgent gliding o'er
the sable deeps : Between where Samos wide his forests spreads, And rocky ...
Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1802
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser
Not so Pope : M He added not ; and Iris, from the skies, Swift as a whirlwind, on
the message flies ; Meteorous, the face of Ocean sweeps, Refulgent gliding o'er
the sable deeps : Between where Samos wide his forests spreads, And rocky ...
Ogilby and Cowper, it is remarked, have faithfully preserved the idea of Iris's
rapid descent into the waves. Not so Pope : " He added not ; and Iris, from the
skies, Swift as a whirlwind, on the message flies ; Meteorous, the face of Ocean
sweeps, ...
George Edward Griffiths, 1802
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Plans of Paradise lost as a tragedy. Lauder's interpolations
To their fix'd station, all in 'bright array The Cherubim descended; on the ground
G-liding meteorous, as evening-mift Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, 630
And gathers ground fast at the labourefs heel Homeward returning. High in front ...
John Milton, Henry John Todd, 1809
7
The Iliad of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope Esq. ... ...
He added not: and Iris from the skies, Swift as a whirlwind, on the message flies,
100 Meteorous the face of Ocean sweeps, Refulgent gliding o'er the sable deeps.
Between where Samos wide his forests spreads, And rocky Imbrus lifts its ...
8
Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. ...
The lines which conclude the poem, rise in a most glorious blaze of poetical
expressions:" Addison. 3 Their fixed station — i e. to the position Michael had
ordered them to occupy. 4 Meteorous — like meteors, seeming as it were
noiselessly to ...
9
History, directory & gazetteer, of the county of York; with ...
On the 13th of January, 179?, a meteorous appearonce was observed on the
forest, near this village, (by several persons of credit and respectability)
resembling a large army, in separate divisions, some in black and others in white
uniforms; ...
Edward Baines, William Parson, 1823
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Milton's Kinesthetic Vision in Paradise Lost
... for whom the "meteorous" power of God and devil alike might "gather fast" like
a fired swamp mist around him, but at his heel, and for whom the fierceness of
comets guides and protects, because his chief guide is the providence of his
state ...
Elizabeth Ely Fuller, 1983
