...Paradise Lost " offers a tribute to the uncanny nature of this bird, when he says of Satan: " Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant." After this we hoped to explore Bald Island, the home of the puffins, but the...

...clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold : So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived...

...themselves in the gunnel of a punt one might infer that they would be at home on trees. They are. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant, is what Milton tells us of the first approach of the Tempter in Eden. Some kinds...

...Messrs. A. Gallenkamp and Co., Ltd.] THE CHRISTMAS TUKE. By SIB GEORGE BIRDWOOO, KCIE, CSI, MD, LL.D. The Tree of Life, The middle tree, and highest there that grew. —MILTON, Paradise Lout, Iv. 194, l»r>. PART I. Only during the past fifty to sixty years has the...

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...clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold : So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived;...

...clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fould: So since into his Church lewd Hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle Tree and highest there that grew. Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true Life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising Death To them who liv'd...

...clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold: So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant; yet not true life Thereby regained, but sat devising death To them who lived;...

...clomb this first grand thief into God's fold : So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. (4.183-96) Here the interruption of the leisurely epic narrative by one line...

...clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold: So since into his Church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up c Sat like a cormorant; yet not true life OBS POETRY QUOTATIONS To them who lived; nor on the virtue...