An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton / Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty.

by John Milton

[157]. complain: directly transitive, in the sense of lament, bewail.

[163]. visual beam: ray of light, the condition of seeing.

'the air,

No where so clear, sharpen'd his visual ray.'

—P. L., iii. 620.

'then [Michael] purged with euphrasy and rue

The visual nerve, for he [Adam] had much to see.'

—P. L., xi. 415.

[165]. Since man on earth: a Latinism like Post urbem conditam, of frequent occurrence in Milton's poetry; 'Never since created man.—P. L., i. 573; 'After the Tuscan mariners transformed.'—Comus, 48.

[169]. pitch: usually pertains to height; here to depth.