...was among the "Miscellaneous Lyrics." 9 A parody of Milton's depiction of the fallen angel Beelzebub: "sage he stood / With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear / The weight of mightiest Monarchies" (Paradise Lost 2.305-7). 0 "touch'd so tenderly, / As a pure ocean-shell, with faintest red, / Melting...

...Deliberation sat and publick care; And Princely counsel in his face yet shon, Majestick though in ruin; sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest Monarchies. (2.302-7) The passage is peppered with the Royalist vocabulary of praise that imputed the virtues of...

...feel the sweet relief of a gradual relaxation: e. Paradise Lost. f. Paradise Lost. g. Paradise Lost. He stood With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The...and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air.h FROM the tenor of these examples it appears, that pleasure is not, as some have imagined, the...

...public care; And Princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood 305 With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of...attention still as Night Or Summer's Noon-tide air, while thus he spake. Thrones and Imperial Powers, off-spring of Heav'n, 310 Ethereal Virtues; or these...

...in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear0 The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew...attention still as night Or summer's noontide air, while thus he spake. Thrones and imperial powers, offspring of heaven, 3 10 Ethereal virtues; or these...