Picture III.—A Sketch.
Satan haranguing his Host.
He spake: and to confirm his words, out flew
Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs
Of mighty Cherubim.—— Book I. v. 663.
Picture IV.
Figures from a simile in allusion to the contracted form of the Spirits assembled in the new-raised Hall of Pandæmonium, illustrated by a simile from
——Fairy elves,
Whose midnight revels by a forest side
Or fountain some belated peasant sees,
Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon
Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth
Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance
Intent, with jocund music charm his ear;
At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Book I. v. 781.
Picture V.
Satan encount'ring Death, Sin interposing.
——And now great deeds
Had been achiev'd, whereof all Hell had rung,
Had not the snaky Sorceress that sat
Fast by Hell gate, and kept the fatal key,
Ris'n, and with hideous outcry rush'd between.
——She finish'd, and the subtle Fiend his lore
Soon learn'd, now milder.——
Book II. v. 722, 815.
In the possession of Sir Thomas Lawrence.