...second book of Paradise Lost opens with a description of a scene in Pandemonium. There, — " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." The "barbaric pearl and gold," we...

...this sentence is unidentified. 214.21 BARBARIC PEARL AND GOLD Milton, Paradise Lost, II, 1-5: "High on a throne of royal state, which far / Outshone the...kings barbaric pearl and gold, / Satan exalted sat." 214.37 SACCHI On April 15, 1833, Emerson had written in his journal: "Few pictures please me more than...

...massive sarcasm: High on a Throne of Royal State, which farr Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of I no1, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond...

...view is deliberately provided for the reader: 15 High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat, . . . The arbitrary selection of a single static position creates a pictorial space with vanishing...

...and not recall the seating of another monarch: High on a Throne of Royal State, which farr Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind , Or where the gorgeous...Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat. (PL 2.1-5)" The point of this echo can best be gathered by examining the text of Virgil that Dryden...

...sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. (Bk. I, 1. 589-599) OBS 58 High when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, merit raised To that bad eminence; and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond...

...along that trade-route between the East and the Levant, which traversed the Persian Gulf, 1 " High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the...Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat." — Paradise Lost, ii. 1-6. and made...

...while planning to have Beelzebub impose the master plan at the end. Satan opens the parliament: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous F.ast with richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold, Satan exalted sat. The throne...

...new monarch sits in sumptuousness rivaled only by Shakespeare's Cleopatra on her gilded barge: High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshone the...richest hand Show'rs on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Cold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence. The demons swarm to the council in the...

...was searching for a metaphor for splendor, he found it, not in Europe, but in travelers' accounts of The wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous...richest hand Show'rs on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold.16 What dazzled travelers was the lifestyle of the courts; the occasional glimpses we get of the...