Highlights in the text
(V.772- 577) “Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues/ if these magnific titles yet remain powers/ Not merely titular, since by decree/ Another now hath to himself engross’d/ All power, and us eclips’d, under the name/ of King Anointed”
(VI.99-103) High in the midst, exalted as a god/ Th’apostate in his sun bright chariot sat/ Idol of majesty divine, enclos’d/ With flaming cherubim and golden sheilds”
(VI.867- 877)
Hell heard th’insufferable noise, Hell saw
Heaven running from heaven, and would have fled
Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep
Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
Nine days they fell, confounded. Chaos roared,
And felt tenfold confusion in their fall
Through his wild anarchy, so huge a rout
Encumber’d him with ruin: hell at last
Yawning reciev’d them whole, and on them closed:
Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain.