...proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the etherial sky, Witn hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition,...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms."— Book 1st, v. 27. We think that Milton has here somewhat copied Masenius. Eden and Sarcolhea are next...

...forehead. " Thus him th' Almighty power hurled headlong down With hideous ruin, and blaspheming tongue, To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire." Christian warrior, thy conflict with Satan is not yet ended ; but it soon will be. Terrible blows have...

...headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down OrmsBy Macf&igkt Mitchett To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine...penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.... Thus Belial with words clothed in reason's garb Counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, Not peace.135...

...of mankind. 7548 Paradise Lost Him the almighty power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With h the omnipotent to arms. 7549 Paradise Lost A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace...

...of the fall: Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous rum and combustion, down To bottomless perdition; there...adamantine chains and penal fire , Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.31 This "fall" has been a popular theme for writers and artists, but remains...

...Battle proud With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th' Ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...penal Fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to Arms. (l:33-49)6 This is exactly the same image as in the Book of Revelation, yet set at the very beginning...

...know, but moist it was, more than damp: wet. Helas! Hurl'd headlong flaming from th ' ethereial sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...penal fire, Who durst defy th ' Omnipotent to Arms. "Well, where is he?" Mom's voice came to Ira as if across the centuries, from the present to the time...

...imperturbability of that other, summer space: Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th'Ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire . . . (1.44-48) One of the major means of realizing the counterplot is the simile. Throughout Paradise...

...underworld, which waits to engulf him: Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal Sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless...there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire. (Milton, Paradise lost, 1667) This miserable existence fills him with hate — hate that he expresses...

...existence of the arch-fiend, but denied his agency in human affairs. They held that he was kept confined "to bottomless perdition, there to dwell — "In adamantine chains and penal fire." Sir Robert Fihner, in 1680, published "An Advertisement to the jurymen of England, touching Witches,"...