...mythology: . . . Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn to Noon...Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lernnos th' Aegean Isle . . . (I 740-46) Milton was a man of the Renaissance, one foot in the old worlds—...

...that high palace. A short poem by the English poet Milton has described it thus: Thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon...Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, th' Aegean isle ' (Have I remembered it wrong? Was it the wine god? Or the fire god, repudiated for...

...Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber. and how he fell From Heav'n. they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon...Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star. On Umnos th' Aegaean Isle: thus they relate, Erring. (1.738-47) This passage richly evokes the mythic...

...Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell 740 From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon...setting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, 745 On Lemnos th' /Egcean Isle: thus they relate, Erring; for he with this rebellious rout Fell long...

...land0 Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell0 740 From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove0 Sheer o'er the crystal battlements; from morn To noon...dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the Aegaean isle: thus they relate. Erring;...

...For the passage ends, once we (and Mulciber) get to Lemnos, with a surprising but ominous reminder thus they relate, Erring; for he with this rebellious...before; nor aught avail'd him now To have built in Heav'n high Towrs; nor did he scape By all his Engins, but was headlong sent With his industrious crew...

...Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements ; from morn To...Zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the ^Egean isle. Milton, Paradise Lost, 739, etc. (1665). Muley Bugentuf, king of Morocco, a blood-and-thunder hero....

...Ausonian Land Men call'd him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heav'n, they fabl'd, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the Crystal Battlements: from Morn To Noon...Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos, th' Aegean Isle. (1.739^46) In the parallels to the Bible and to the classical epics, Milton sometimes...

...who is the real boss of fire, as Milton describes in Paradise Lost, Book 1, from line 742 onwards: Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon...setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star. So this is a warning, then, after the elucidatory prayer of thanks in the previous quatrain - a warning...