...his gestures fierce He mark'd and mad demeanour, then alone , As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...

...his gestures fierce He mark'd and mad demeanour, then alone, As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable hight of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm,...

...remarqua ses gestes He mark'd and mad demeanour, then alone, As he supposed, all unobserved, unseen. S« on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a sleep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and...

..."History of Moscovia". I. The Approach to Paradise, compared to the Forests of Northern Russia. 4.131 So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head 5 Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied;...

...locked door, her 'knoll', all seem to echo Milton's 'verdurous wall', his 'enclosure green', his lines, As with a rural mound the champain head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairie sides With thicket overgrown, grottesque and wilde, Access deni'd... (IV. 133-7) hi spite of...

...glimpse of paradise is an astonishing synthesis of the broadly sensual and the specifically sexual: So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden,...with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,...

...Satan arrives at the wall of Eden, which "is seen as a mons Veneris, 'a rural mound, the champaign head / Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides /...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access denied' (4.13437). "10 Though Satan gains access into Eden, access to the mons Veneris will continue to elude...

...Milton's: "Paradise . . . with her enclosure green / As with a rural mound the champaign [open country] head / of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides /...thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, / Access denied." These lines develop from the ideas of an enclosed garden whose function is to maintain the distinction...

...version of the scriptural land flowing with milk and honey. Paradise crowns the head of a steep mountain: So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where...with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,...

...Eden, we recall, is a hortus conclusus, a fertile enclosure walled off from the savage world outside: Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, Crowns...with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild,...