...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as night. Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now...

...Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook u dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now...

...bark and howl'd, Within, unseen." " The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For...as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on." Analysis....

...be called that f«hape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might lie called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either...stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell !" Others, as we think more rationally, consider that its horrid details were not altogether fictions,...

...the menace of the spectre at hell-gates to Satan, attempting to pass them. Death, " that other shape, If shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable' in member, joint, or limb," • thus threatens the arch-fiend : — " Back to thy punishment, False fugitive! and to thy speed...

...for its "substitution of a sublime feeling of the unimaginable for a mere image": The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable...seemed, For each seemed either; black it stood as night . . . (2.666-70)17 However, in Milton, Satan's confrontation with Death is subordinated to his long...

...uncertainty of strokes and colouring he has finished the portrait of the king of terrors. The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable,...that shadow seemed, For each seemed either; black he stood as night; Fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell; And shook a deadly dart. What seemed his...

...Condensed Blackness, and Abysmal Storm Compacted to one Sceptre Arms thy grasp enorm. The Intercepter! — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. (ii. 670-3)...

...that this figure is a brilliant poetic instance of a hollowed-out abstraction, that "other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none / Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb" (PL 2.666-67, p. 49). Read against the chorus of Neoclassical complaints about Milton's use of allegory,...

...Milton's description of Death in Paradise Last (1674): The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night. (2.666-7o) Shelley's Demogorgon,...