forthwith the huge porcullis high up drew; which but her self not all the stygian powers ' 875 ' could once have movd; then in the key…hole turns th intricate wards; and every bolt and bar of massie iron or sollid rock with ease unfastns: on a sudden opn flie with impetuous recoile and jarring sound ' 880 ' th infernal dores; and on thir hinges grate harsh thunder; that the lowest bottom shook of erebus。 she opnd; but to shut exceld her power; the gates wide opn stood; that with extended wings a bannerd host ' 885 ' under spread ensigns marching might pass through with horse and chariots rankt in loose array; so wide they stood; and like a furnace mouth cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame。 。。 Paradise Lost Ⅱ19 {小}{说}{网} the key of this infernal pit by due; ' 850 ' and by mand of heavns all…powerful king i keep; by him forbidden to unlock these adamantine gates; against all force death ready stands to interpose his dart; fearless to be ormatcht by living might。 ' 855 ' but what ow i to his mands above who hates me; and hath hither thrust me down into this gloom of tartarus profound; to sit in hateful office here confind; inhabitant of heavn; and heavnlie…born; ' 860 ' here in perpetual agonie and pain; with terrors and with clamors passt round of mine own brood; that on my bowels feed: thou art my father; thou my author; thou my being gavst me; whom should i obey ' 865 ' but thee; whom follow? thou wilt bring me soon to that new world of light and bliss; among the gods who live at ease; where i shall reign at thy right hand voluptuous; as beseems thy daughter and thy darling; without end。 ' 870 ' thus saying; from her side the fatal key; sad instrument of all our woe; she took; and towards the gate rouling her bestial train; forthwith the huge porcullis high up drew; which but her self not all the stygian powers ' 875 ' could once have movd; then in the key…hole turns th intricate wards; and every bolt and bar of massie iron or sollid rock with ease unfastns: on a sudden opn flie with impetuous recoile and jarring sound ' 880 ' th infernal dores; and on thir hinges grate harsh thunder; that the lowest bottom shook of erebus。 she opnd; but to shut exceld her power; the gates wide opn stood; that with extended wings a bannerd host ' 885 ' under spread ensigns marching might pass through with horse and chariots rankt in loose array; so wide they stood; and like a furnace mouth cast forth redounding smoak and ruddy flame。 Paradise Lost Ⅱ20 ~ before thir eyes in sudden view appear ' 890 ' the secrets of the hoarie deep; a dark illimitable ocean without bound; without dimension; where length; breadth; & highth; and time and place are lost; where eldest night and chaos; ancestors of nature; hold ' 895 ' eternal anarchie; amidst the noise of endless warrs; and by confusion stand。 for hot; cold; moist; and dry; four champions fierce strive here for maistrie; and to battel bring thir embryon atoms; they around the flag ' 900 ' of each his faction; in thir several clanns; light…armd or heavy; sharp; smooth; swift or slow; swarm populous; unnumberd as the sands of barca or cyrenes torrid soil; levied to side with warring winds; and poise ' 905 ' thir lighter wings。 to whom these most adhere; hee rules a moment; chaos umpire sits; and by decision more imbroiles the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter chance governs all。 into this wilde abyss; ' 910 ' the womb of nature and perhaps her grave; of neither sea; nor shore; nor air; nor fire; but all these in thir pregnant causes mixt confusdly; and which thus must ever fight; unless th almighty maker them ordain ' 915 ' his dark materials to create more worlds; into this wild abyss the warie fiend stood on the brink of hell and lookd a while; pondering his voyage: for no narrow frith he had to cross。 nor was his eare less peald ' 920 ' with noises loud and ruinous (to pare great things with small) then when bellona storms; with all her battering engines bent to rase som capital city; or less then if this frame of heavn were falling; and these elements ' 925 ' in mutinie had from her axle torn the stedfast earth。 at last his sail…broad vannes he spreads for flight; and in the surging smoak uplifted spurns the ground; thence many a league as in a cloudy chair ascending rides ' 930 ' audacious; but that seat soon failing; meets a vast vacuitie: all unawares fluttring his pennons vain plumb down he drops ten thousand fadom deep; and to this hour down had been falling; had not by ill chance ' 935 ' the strong rebuff of som tumultuous cloud instinct with fire and nitre hurried him as many miles aloft: that furie stayd; quencht in a boggy syrtis; neither sea; nor good dry land: nigh founderd on he fares; ' 940 ' treading the crude consistence; half on foot; half flying; behoves him now both oare and saile。 as when a gryfon through the wilderness with winged course ore hill or moarie dale; pursues the arimaspian; who by stelth ' 945 ' had from his wakeful custody purloind the guarded gold: so eagerly the fiend ore bog or steep; through strait; rough; dense; or rare; with head; hands; wings; or feet pursues his way; and swims or sinks; or wades; or creeps; or flyes: ' 950 ' at length a universal hubbub wilde of stunning sounds and voices all confusd borne through the hollow dark assaults his eare with loudest vehemence: thither he plyes; undaunted to meet there what ever power ' 955 ' or spirit of the nethermost abyss might in that noise reside; of whom to ask which way the neerest coast of darkness lyes bordering on light; when strait behold the throne of chaos; and his dark pavilion spread ' 960 ' wide on the wasteful deep; with him enthrond sat sable…vested night; eldest of things; the consort of his reign; and by them stood orcus and ades; and the dreaded n