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...Greece ; and in Ausonian2 land Men called him Mulciber ; 3 and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements...dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the JS'gean isle : thus they relate, Erring ;...

...Greece : and in the Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber : and how he fell From Heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements...dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the JEgeiai isle : thus they relate, Erring."—...

...him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon...dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos th' Aegean Ule.—MILT. FAR. L. i. 739." 4. Tenedos,...

...Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell 740 From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements...dewy eve, A. summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, . 745 On Lemnos, th' jEgean isle : thus they relate, Erring...

...ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements...dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring ; for...

...Lemnos, which was thenceforth sacred to him. Milton alludes to this story in Paradise Lost, Book I. " From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the JEgean isle." Mars, (Ares,) the god of...

...other island which is linked with the name of Vulcan, of whom ' " How he fell From heav'n they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements...dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, th' jEgean isle." We passed soon afterwards the...

...a little cross, hecause heacons had anciently crosses on their tops— any great light set on high. Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To...dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the .55gean isle : thus they relate, Erring...

...represents both the distance through which, and the speed with •which, Mulciber fell from heaven : — From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun, Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star. What art is manifest in these few lines ! The object is...