...Angels seen / Hovering on wing under the cape of Hell": A multitude like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw,...on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands. 4 * One reason for the interest in climatic theories in England was the traditional disparagement,...

...strange and sinister barbaric powers. Milton was to use such geographical imagery in his own fashion: A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd...on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. Or, with the overtones more purely literary: For never since created man, Met such imbodied...

...Lost Milton compares Satan's troops to the Germanic tribes that swept away the western Roman Empire: A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd...on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. (PL I.35I-55) The poet closes the passage alluding to the Vandals, themselves bywords...

...the irruption of a horde of barbarians, who rushed like an overwhelming flood from the North of Asia. A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Khene or the Danaw, when her barbarous Sons Came like a Deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar...

...overwhelming flood from the North ot Asia. A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd never trom her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw when...on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. The great law of self-preservation compelled them to stand on their defence, to resist...

...imagines a great multitude, greater than that which the north of Europe emptied out, When her barb'rous sons Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. These were " cast to the earth " — not the literal earth, for we are contemplating...

...barbarians by associating the latter with Satan's troops, who when called into formation constitute: A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd...on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. (1.351-55) Although Adam and Eve choose to generate humanity rather than commit suicide...

...direct Thir course, in even balance down they light On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; 350 A multitude, like which the populous North Pour'd...on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. 355 Forthwith from every Squadron and each Band The Heads and Leaders thither haste where...

...On the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain; 350 A multitude, like which the populous north Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons0 Came like a deluge on the south, and spread Beneath Gibralter to the Lybian sands. Forthwith...

...nimble Tartar can leap over" and Milton's description of the throng of fallen angels in Paradise Lost ("a multitude, like which the populous North / Pour'd never from her frozen loins").72 The implication is that truth, formerly the hunted, has now become the hunter and turned...