 | 1917 - 1686 էջ
...sentence of remarkable power. "When night darkens the streets," wrote the blind poet of infinite vision, "then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." That grips the imagination. COPY SHOULD "OBSERVE THE OCCASION" The Miltonic style, however, is suggestive... | |
 | Martinus Adrianus Beek - 1972 - 152 էջ
...terrorized Londoners by night in the seventeenth century; cf. John MILTON, Paradise Lost i. 500ff.: And when Night Darkens the Streets, then wander forth...the Sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. From Gath David made his way to the cave of Adullam (1 Sam. xxii 1); to this period Psalms lvii (“A... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1988 - 166 էջ
...the sofa beside her, helping her to hold a very heavy, very old, calfbound Milton, while she read: " In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious...above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage." When she paused in the solemn evocation for breath, I tried to fill in the interval by saying something... | |
 | Gerald Lynch - 1988 - 228 էջ
..."as it fell dusk" (AA, 308); and appropriately so, for, as Milton writes of the lewd Sons of Belial, "when Night / Darkens the Streets, then wander forth...the Sons / Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine (1.500-3). The celebration at the Mausoleum Club continues "all night long" (AA, 309). Of all the self-enriching... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 324 էջ
...in one last agony of appeal. John Milton describes the corruption of Gibeah that fearful night — When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night In Gibeab, when the hospitable door Exposed a matron to... | |
 | Raman Selden - 1989 - 222 էջ
...last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself 1... .1 In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious...the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. (1.490—2, 497—502) Professor Rajan points out (see Alastair Fowler's edition, 1.490—3, note)... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 էջ
...prigs as fast as butchers in Chicago handle hogs. RB Cunningham-Grahame (1852-1936) British author And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth...the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 էջ
...than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons,¿ 2 who filled With lust and violence the house of God? In courts...loftiest towers, And injury and outrage; and when night 500 Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Witness... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 էջ
...astronomer, poet. The Rubaiyat Khayyam, st. 74, trans, by Edward FitzGerald, fourth edition (1879). 17 And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth...the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Paradise Lost, bk. 1,1. 500-2 (1667). 18 Candy Is dandy But... | |
 | Eliza Marian Butler - 1979 - 352 էջ
...oft than hee In Temples and at Altars, when the Priest, Turns Atheist, as did Ely's Sons, who fill'd With lust and violence the house of God. In Courts...he also Reigns, And in luxurious Cities, where the noyse Of riot ascends above their loftiest Towers, And injury and outrage....' ‘Paradise Lost, Book... | |
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With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons... 
