151 14. Chewing ashes. P. L. 10. 566. Loaden. For the word see Sidney, Defense of Poesy 1 10, note.

152 11. See Bohn's edition of the Greek Romances, p. 74: "You may know them [the gods] . . . still more by their motion, which is a kind of gliding, an aerial impulse, without movement of the feet, cleaving rather than traversing the air."

152 31. Gen. 19. 16.

153 30 ff. Cf. Masson, Poetical Works of John Milton 1. 13-14: "But the most important difference between this [the second] and the previous edition is that, whereas the poem had been arranged in Ten Books in the first, it is here arranged in Twelve. This is accomplished by dividing what had formerly been the two longest Books of the poem - Books VII and X - into two Books each. There is a corresponding division in the 'Arguments' of these Books; and the 'Arguments,' instead of being given in a body at the beginning, are prefixed to the Books to which they severally apply. These changes, we are distinctly informed, were made by Milton himself. To smooth over the breaks made by the division of the two Books, the three new lines were added which now form the beginning of Book VIII and the five that begin Book XII; and there are one or two other slight additions or alterations, also dictated by Milton, in the course of the text, besides a few verbal variations, such as would arise in reprinting."

155 1 ff. Cf. 6 29-31, and note.

155 29-156 12. Matthew Arnold (A French Critic on Milton) quotes this, and adds: "This is the sort of criticism which held our grandfathers and great-grandfathers spellbound in solemn reverence. But it is all based upon convention, and on the positivism of the modern reader it is thrown away. Does the work which you praise, he asks, affect me with high pleasure and do me good, when I try it as fairly as I can? The critic who helps such a questioner is one who has sincerely asked himself, also, this same question; who has answered it in a way which agrees, in the main, with what the questioner finds to be his own honest experience in the matter, and who shows the reasons for the common experience."

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

[A few of the commonest names are omitted, such as Adam, Eve, Milton,
Paradise; so Paradise Lost, except where there is reference to a specific
book or passage, and the various synonyms for the name of the Divine
Being; but the word Messiah is included. The numbers enclosed in square
brackets point to a reference merely, not a quotation.]

Abraham 150 5.

Abdiel 884.

Achates 914.

24. 8, 10 64 28; 24. 11: 70 23;
26.6: 310-14].

Ascanius 921, 1192.

Achilles 4 16, 25 [92], 12 10, 19, 37 6, Athena, see Minerva.

Aristotle 310, 410, 520, 83, 11 12,
131, 15, 23, 33, 143, 24 11, 24,
25 8, 29, 278, 13, 16, 29, 3013,
34 10, 35 10, 3630, 373, 4017,
64 28, 33, 66 30, 70 23.
Poetics [6.5 83; 6. 14:24-9;
9.6:6630; 10: 34 10;
35 10; 13. 2, 3:133 ff.;
35 10; 17. 3, 5:65 ff.; 19.1,2:
14 15; 22: 218 ff.; 23. 1:24-

:

Azazel 48 20.

Babel 148 20.

Beelzebub 26 16, 561, 24
Belial 46 16, 54 25.
Bellona 135 27.
Boccalini 32 30.
Boileau 50 20.

Lutrin 10 31.

Bossu 85 5, 86 28, 154 8.

Cain 143 19.

Caliban 15 26.

Camilla 927.
Canticles 81 18.
Cato 37 11, 12.
Cicero, see Tully.
Circe 66 20.

Citharon, Mount 1394.
Claudian 1716, 246, 93 3, 25.
Cloanthus 917.

11. 2:

16. 8:

Confusion 136 5.

Consternation 135 28.

9; 23.3:2 16 ff.; 24.7: 371; Dacier 84 18, 855.

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