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 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 348 pages
...(Though like a coverti field, where Champions bold Wont ride in arm'd, and at the Soldan's chair Defi'd the best of Paynim chivalry To mortal combat or career with Lance) Thick swarm'd, both on the ground and in the air, Brusht with the hiss of rustling wings. As Bees In... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Attended: all access was thronged, the gates And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall (Though like a covered field, where champions bold Wont ride in armed, and at the soldan's chair0 Def1ed the best of paynim chivalry0 To mortal combat or career with lance)0 Thick swarmed, both... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 288 pages
...to "the high capital / Of Satan and his peers" we find not a river but an enormous, indoor stadium, "where champions bold / Wont ride in armed, and at...soldan's chair / Defied the best of paynim chivalry" (1.756-757, 763-765). Milton's skeptical appraisal of city life seems to influence his depiction of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1903 - 782 pages
...Milton had been a great lover and student : for example — " Bnt chief the spacious hall (Tho' like a covered field, where champions bold Wont ride in...armed, and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat, or career with lance)." In these is to be found a common element of... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 446 pages
...Attended ; all access was thronged, the gates And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall (Though like a covered field, where champions bold Wont ride in...armed, and at the Soldan's chair, Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat, or career with lance), Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in the... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 338 pages
...Attended. All access was thronged; the gates And porches wide, but chief the spacious hall (Though like a covered field, where champions bold Wont ride in...armed, and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat, or career with lance), , Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in... | |
 | 1961 - 352 pages
...used. Cf. Paradise Lost, 1. 763 — 766, where he says that the hall of Pandemonium was spacious as a field "where champions bold Wont ride in armed, and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat, or career with lance." The Duello is fully illustrated in the last... | |
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