Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet bu…

John Milton
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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. ✨ John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan, p.145
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