conformable to the Pride and Intrepidity of his Character.
Know ye not then, said Satan, fll'd with Scorn,
Know ye not Me? ye knew me once no mate
For you, there sitting where you durst not soar;
Not to know Me argues your selves unknown,
The lowest of your throng;—
Zephon's
Rebuke, with the Influence it had on
Satan
, is exquisitely Graceful and Moral.
Satan
is afterwards led away to
Gabriel
, the chief of the Guardian Angels, who kept watch in Paradise. His disdainful Behaviour on this Occasion is so remarkable a Beauty, that the most ordinary Reader cannot but take Notice of it.