"
_Paradise Lost_, ii.
_Paradise Lost_, ii.
Byron
1, _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii.
381.
]
[109] {232}[Lucifer was evidently indebted to the Manichaeans for his
theory of the _duplex terra_--an infernal as well as a celestial
kingdom. ]
[110] {233}["According to the prince of the power of the air" (_Eph_.
ii. 2). ]
[cd] _An hour, when walking on a petty lake_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[ce] {234}
_Yon round blue circle swinging in far ether_
_With an inferior circlet dimmer still_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[111] [Compare--
"And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain,
This pendent World, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
"
_Paradise Lost_, ii. 1051-1053.
Compare, too--
"The magic car moved on.
Earth's distant orb appeared
The smallest light that twinkles in the heavens;
Whilst round the chariot's way
Innumerable systems rolled,
And countless spheres diffused
An ever-varying glory. "
Shelley's _Queen Mab, Poetical Works_, 1829, p. 106. ]
[112] {235}["Several of the ancient Fathers, too much prejudiced in
favour of virginity, have pretended that if Man had persevered in
innocence he would not have entered into the carnal commerce of
matrimony, and that the propagation of mankind would have been effected
quite another way. " (See St. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, xiv. cap.
xxi. ; Bayle's _Dictionary_, art. "Eve," 1735, ii. 853, note C. )]
[113] {236}[Compare--
"Below lay stretched the universe!
There, far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination's flight,
Countless and unending orbs
In many motions intermingled,
Yet still fulfilled immutably
Eternal Nature's laws.
[109] {232}[Lucifer was evidently indebted to the Manichaeans for his
theory of the _duplex terra_--an infernal as well as a celestial
kingdom. ]
[110] {233}["According to the prince of the power of the air" (_Eph_.
ii. 2). ]
[cd] _An hour, when walking on a petty lake_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[ce] {234}
_Yon round blue circle swinging in far ether_
_With an inferior circlet dimmer still_. --[MS. M. erased. ]
[111] [Compare--
"And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain,
This pendent World, in bigness as a star
Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
"
_Paradise Lost_, ii. 1051-1053.
Compare, too--
"The magic car moved on.
Earth's distant orb appeared
The smallest light that twinkles in the heavens;
Whilst round the chariot's way
Innumerable systems rolled,
And countless spheres diffused
An ever-varying glory. "
Shelley's _Queen Mab, Poetical Works_, 1829, p. 106. ]
[112] {235}["Several of the ancient Fathers, too much prejudiced in
favour of virginity, have pretended that if Man had persevered in
innocence he would not have entered into the carnal commerce of
matrimony, and that the propagation of mankind would have been effected
quite another way. " (See St. Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, xiv. cap.
xxi. ; Bayle's _Dictionary_, art. "Eve," 1735, ii. 853, note C. )]
[113] {236}[Compare--
"Below lay stretched the universe!
There, far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination's flight,
Countless and unending orbs
In many motions intermingled,
Yet still fulfilled immutably
Eternal Nature's laws.
