...gambol of an elephant; he seems out of his element. He never appears to so great advantage as when, "High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric gold and pearls," he sits in majesty and discourses upon high morals, settles religious differences,...

...the chambers of the east, Crowned with a gemmed tiara thick embossed With studs of living light. 4. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...with richest hand, Showers on her kings, barbaric pearls and gold, Satan exalted sat. 5. His broad expanded wings Lay calm and motionless upon the air,...

...them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom at length they are opened, and discover to him the gulf between Hell and Heaven : with what difficulty...gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings harbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and from despair...

...English prose ; but its effect is better seen in poetry, in such a passage as the following : — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." Paradise Lost, Book II. 1-5. PAET THIRD. RULES OF VERSE. (PROSODY.) 77. KHYTHM. The poetry of the ancients...

...magnificence they saw around them. The khan sat, like the Prince of Darkness in Milton's Paradise " On a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold." Pinto gives a very detailed account of the glories of the Tartar camp and court, and in many particulars...

...can blame them ? As Philip looked down from his seat on Mount Hope, that glorious eminence, that " throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth...hand, Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold," — with fire, the slanting beams streaming across the waters, the broad plains, the island groups,...

...Hell gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom at length they are opened, and1 discover to him the great gulf between Hell and Heaven...pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised 5 To that bad eminence ; and, from despaii Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high,...

...belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitrcss. Book \. Line 78i. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...exalted sat, by merit raised To that bad eminence. Book ii. Line i. Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us. Bookl\. Line 29. The strongest...

...without the formal consultation or deliberation which took place in those halla of legislation, where High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone...her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat ; But all this allows the poet to make that nice discrimination which he has done among the chiefs...

...INFERNAL COUNCIL. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,1 Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers...and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus display'd : " Powers and dominions, deities of Heaven ; For since no deep within her gulf can hold...