501 Earth in her Rich Attire Confummate Lovely Smil'd; Aire, Water, Earth, by Fowl, Fish, Beaft, was Flown, was Swum, was Walkt Frequent; Confummate, Finish'd. the Aire was Flown, Water Swum, &c. commonly Thus exprefs'd in Greek and Latin, though not Usual in Our Tongue, Frequent, is Full, Crowded. I. 797. X. 1091. 1103. 508 with Sanctity of Reason Reafon has Sanctity apply'd to it as being a Ray of the Divinity Shining in the Humane Soul. 510 Self-Knowing, and from Thence Magnanimous to Correfpond with Heaven, Man, Confcious of his own Dignity Exalts his Mind beyond his prefent Dwelling, and afpires towards God; But, as it follows, Gratefully Humble, Devout and Pious. See VIII. 257. 524 He Form'd Thee, Adam, Thee O Man Duft of the Ground, and in Thy Noftrils breath'd the Breath of Life; though from the Duft yet form'd by the Hand of God and Animated by His Breath. a more Noble Original than Humane Pride it Self has yet produc'd; Very Different from Some Some of the most Ancient Poets who have Imagin'd that Men Sprung from Oaks or Craggy Stones, or Holes in the Earth. Ancient even in Hefiod's time, why, (fays he) do I talk of thefe Old Fables of a Stone and a Cave? Hence People of Mean and Obfcure Birth were faid to be the Offspring of Oaks, So Penelope fays to Ulyffes (Odyf. T. 143,) Tell me Who you are, and from Whence, for You are not from the Ancient Oak. Vid. Æn. VIII. 315. in his Own Image kee 526 Created thee, in the Image of God Milton Always Abounds with Great Ideas Here is One of Man the Image of God, his Exprefs Image, That Repetition is full of Beauty and Energy. IV. 288, &c. Man is at Large Defcrib'd, the Humane Form, but This is not the Image Here Meant. That confifted Partly in his Sov'raignty on Earth, his Dominion over the Creatures; Eve her felf Owns it also extends to Her IV. 637. God is Thy Law, Thou Mine. Partly in the Liberty of his Will, III. 98; but Chiefly in his Moral Perfections, the Beauty of Holiness, Truth, Wisdom, and Purity, IV. 293. and fee the Note on VII. 221. This is Milton's Idea of That in which confifts the Divine Refemblance; and he has Copy'd it from Gen. i. 26. Wifd. ii. 23. Eccl. xvii. 3. Eccl. vii. 29. Coloff. iii. 10. Which Glorious Image Defac'd by Tranfgref Tranfgreffion is Now Reftor'd, and may yet Brightly Shine by Putting On the New Man which after God is Created in Righteousness and True Holiness; or, as the Word May be Otherwise rendred, the Holiness of Truth, Eph. iv. 24. Happy, and Truly Great is He Who, Knowing the Dignity of his Nature Retaining fill Divine Similitude Knows to Revere God's Image in Himself. 528 and thou becam'ft a Living Soul. as Gen. ii. 7. Immediately after he was form'd of the Dut of the Ground God breathed into his Noftrils the Breath of Life, and Man, as the other Animals 388. 451. became a Living Soul. 556 how Good, how Faire, Anfwering his Great Idea. What an amazing Picture! Now Heav'n in all her Glory fhon, and rowl'd her Motions. Earth in her Rich Attire, Compleated, Smil'd Lovely. Air, Water, and Earth, Inhabited by Animals of all Kinds, All in Primitive Beauty, and in the Beauty of Holinefs. Not like the Works of Men who Conceive beyond what their Hands can Execute, What God Undertakes, Fully, and moft Exactly Answers his Intention, the Great Idea Exifting in his Infinite Mind. 562 the Heav'ns and all the Conftellations rung, the Planets in their Station lift'ning flood, the vaft Circumference of the Heavens, and the Fixt Stars, Fixt in that Immenfe Orb, This Univerfal Starry Orb Rung; the Earth, the Air Refounded (v. 560) the Planets Attendant Stood in their feveral Stations Lift'ning. These were Near in Comparison of the Ecchoing Conftellations. 573 Supernal Grace Supreme, Divine. 581 Pouder'd with Starrs. the Galaxie or Milky way which is seen in the Heavens in a Clear Night as a Road, or as a Girdle or Zone, feems as Powder, not diftinct Stars. Poud'red is a Term in Heraldry, as, Poudred with Ermin, that is, the Spots are thrown over the Field as Duft, without any certain Number. 597 all Sounds on Fret by String, or Golden Wire. on the Finger-board of a Bafs-Viol, for Inftance, are Divifions athwart by which the Sound is Regulated and Varied; Thefe Divifions are call'd Frets. 599 Choral or Unifon Many Parts together, or One only. 602 Great are thy Works Jehovah, Here the Angels afcribe to the Son the Great, Paternal Name; Intimating Thereby his Unity with the Father; Or they Hymn the Father together with the Son, as having been Present and Acting in All, as v. 588, &c. 605 then from the Gyant Angels the Hebrew word Gibbor rendred Gyant by the Septuagint fignifies a Proud, Fierce, and Afpiring Temper; 'tis Therefore Doubtless that Milton puts This Expreffion into the Mouths of the Angels, not that They Alluded to that Poetical Story. Though his Readers having it in their Thoughts would be Affifted by That Idea to Conceive Better of This Stoty, Allowing for the Difference This being without Comparison more Sublime. 619 on the Clear Hyaline immediately tranflated the Glaffy Sea. Milton Sometimes when he Ufes Greek Words gives the English with them; as in fpeaking of the Rivers of Hell, II. 577, &c. The Glaffy Sea Here is the fame as the Chryftallin Ocean, v. 268. 271. III. 482. 621 And every Star perhaps a World of Deftin'd Habitation. See Lucr. II. 1073. |