...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. [3.51-55] At once, as though in answer to that prayer, the poem makes in effect a new start, as we...

...to purge his sight, as Michael purges Adam's vision: "... there plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight" (3.53-55), or when he pleads "What in me is dark, / Illumine, what is low raise and support" (1.22-23)....

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 試奏看夜曲。 於是， 年年都有 四季輪轉， 但是， 我這裏卸永遠 輪不到白晝，...

...her powers / Irradiate"—to enable him to see outward—"There plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight" (3.51-55). In his formulation, this narrator is illuminated so that he can see. The epic begins, "What...

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plam eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (III.40-55):' Now, there is another Miltonic reference in /Vf/.XII.31-33. equally alluding to a break...

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Milton 1990: 201) was himself enlisted as a secular scripture in the cause of what was already, by...

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (PL, 1n.4o-55)1 The passage turns, as the poem turns, upon God's ability to bring light out of darkness....

...is privy to the Father's irony as he scrutinizes Satan winging his way toward the Paradise of Fools: "High throned above all highth, bent down his eye, /His own works and their works at once to view" (3.58 59). The Son shares the Father's scorn in his own boast about the prospect of victory...

...relation to the threat posed to humankind. These are the opening lines of the twenty-four-line segment: Now had the almighty Father from above, From the pure...High throned above all highth, bent down his eye. (1II.56-58) metaphors, both explicit and implicit, that invite the reader to imagine a vast room where...

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, That I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Ibid.: 54-55, III, 51-55). Visuality is censured, and exhibited as the means fit only to portray evil,...