...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. 4 The first two decades of the nineteenth century saw the discoveries of fossil animals whose anatomical...

...also felt humbled by the thought of those strange presences Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress. Total sceptic though I might be, it was hard to peer at the silvered grasses without hoping for some...

...insects, then expanding to the “bigness” of dwarfs and elves: Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's Giant Sons Now less than smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faery Elves. (‘.¿-78') Yet, even...

...crowd Swarm'd and were strait'n'd; till the Signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass Earth's Giant Sons Now less than smallest Dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faery Elves, Whose midnight Revels,...

...scale in order to enter the council chamber of Pandemonium: Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or faerie elves, Whose midnight revels,...

...extended chain of similes by some enchanting "Faerie Elves," Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side Or Fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he...sees, while over-head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course; they on thir mirth and dance Intent, with jocund Music...

...and were straisened; till the signal given, Behold a wonder! they bus now who seemed In bigness so surpass Earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels,...

...crowd Swarmed and were straitened; till the signal given, Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless. (Paradise Lost 1.775-780) Voltaire's comment that this metamorphosis "heightens the ridicule...

...observed, all lose their identity and become one unknown pattern. Behold a wonder! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in a narrow room Throng numberless. (John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I) 4 Storing abstract meaning Domains...