Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light, 1045 1050 This pendent world, in bigness as a star 1055 etc. See III. 586.1037. Nature, creation, our world, cosmos as opposed to chaos? 1042-43. Wafts himself? Holds the port. Lat. tenet portum, as in Virgil, Æn. I.400. — 1046-47. Weighs, poises? See 1. 905. Empyreal. I. 117.-1048. Undetermined etc. "From the portion that was seen, the eye could not determine whether its margin was straight or curved." Keightley. Explanation sufficient ? — 1049. Opal towers and battlements. Prof. Himes suggests that the 'crystal wall ' of heaven is simply the horizon wall. The idea is strikingly beautiful. If it is correct, then perhaps, like the Latin arces, the 'opal towers and battlements' may be mountain-peaks in that horizon, dipped in the colors of heaven. Angelic art and skill may have added to their beauty and grandeur. See I. 733, 749 ; IV. 542–8; V. 758-9. Coinciding with the horizon line may be precipices like the chalk cliffs of Albion, and at their base the ocean surges of Chaos may beat. See VII. 210 to 215; also the Preface. 1051. Golden chain. See 1005. -1052. This pendent world. Shakespeare's phrase in Measure for Measure, III. 1. 126. World. Not our earth, as so many commentators have thought, but our universe of stars, all seeming like a single shining point! 1053. Smallest. Is it the true relative size, or only the apparent, the optical effect, that is here sought to be indicated? Reason for your opinion? END OF BOOK II. Candia, 43. Caspian, 94. celebrate, 69, 70. cells, 53. Celtic, 44. Dante's Inferno. See In- troduction, Prof. Himes darkened all the land, 34. darkness, visible, 15. centre, 17,( the earth), 52. deform, 93. Cerberean, 90. ethereal, 86. Delphian, 43. Demogorgon, 103, 104. explained, 81. demur, 77. extinct, 22. Ezekiel, 40. De Quincey, 6, 9, 10. derides, 68. despaired, 51. F. fables, 26. fact of arms, 65. Charlemagne, Chemos, 38. cherub, 23, 44. cherubim, 36. chimeras, 88. chivalry, 33. chosen seed, 8. circumference, 31. close (= grapple), 83. compare (noun), 47. conceiving fire, 28. conclave, 57. conscious, 96. determined, 73. devils, adored as deities, 36. diction. See Preface. dint, 96. dire hail, 86. disastrous, 48. discord, 104. Dodona, 43. doing or suffering, 23. doubt (= hesitation), 63. Dryden, 3. dungeon, 15, 73. durst, 14. conduct, 21. confer, 56. dwarfs, 46. confine, 104. confounded, 14. conjecture, 65. E. conjured, 92. Eden, 6. edge, 31. considerate, 48. Eleale, 38. element, 80. eloquence, 84. elves, 57. embattled, 21. empyreal, 20, 108. empyrean (see Preface and endless (= endlessly), 66. enow, 81. entertain, 82. D. entire, 51. gave to rule, 55. Gehenna, 37. globe, 81. gloomy deep, 22. glorious, 19. gold (streets), 52. |