——With swift ascent he up return'd.
She ended here, or vehement despair
Broke off the rest; so much of death her thoughts
Had entertain'd, as dy'd her cheeks with pale.
But Adam with such counsel nothing sway'd,
To better hopes his more attentive mind
Lab'ring had raised.—— Book X. v. 224, 1007.
Picture XXII.
Death and Sin bridging the 'waste' of Chaos,
and met by Satan on his return from Earth.
——The aggregated soil
Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a trident smote,——
——and the mole immense wrought on
Over the foaming deep high arch'd, a bridge
Of length prodigious.——
——when behold
Satan in likeness of an Angel bright——
——Sin, his fair
Enchanting daughter, thus the silence broke:
O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds.
Book X. v. 293, 300, 326, 352.
In the possession of the Countess of Guilford.
Picture XXIII.
Satan discovered on his Throne, after his return from Earth.
——Down a while
He sat, and round about him saw unseen:
At last as from a cloud his fulgent head
And shape star-bright appear'd——
——all amaz'd
At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng
Bent their aspect——
——loud was th' acclaim:
Forth rush'd in haste the great consulting peers,
Rais'd from their dark Divan.——
Book X. v. 447, 452, 455.
Picture XXIV.
The Vision of the Lazar-house.