...Stretch'd out to the amplest reach of prospect lay. Not higher that hill nor wider looking round, ssi Whereon for different cause the tempter set Our second...glory. His eye might there command wherever stood ®s City of old or modern fame, the seat Of mightiest empire, from the destin'd walls Of Cambalu, seat...

...prospect la Not higher that hill, nor wider looking round, Whereon, for different cause, the tempter let Our second Adam, in the wilderness, To show him all earth's kingdoms, and their glon His eye might there command wherever stood City of old or modern fame, the seat Of mightiest empire,...

...Stretch'd out to the amplest reach of prospect lay. Not higher that hill, nor wider looking round, "Whereon for different cause the tempter set Our second...the destined walls Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can, 388 And Samarcand by Oxus, Temir's throne, To Paquin of Sinasan kings ; and thence To Agra and Lahore...

...Stretched out to the amplest reach of prospect lay. Not higher that hill, nor wider looking ground, Whereon for different cause the Tempter set Our second Adam, in the wilderness, To shew him all Earth's kingdoms and their glory. His eye might there command wherever stood City of old...

...idols at I 392 ; the heroes of classical epic and medieval romance at I 576 (that list is contained all earth's kingdoms and their glory. His eye might...from the destined walls Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian khan And Samarkand by Oxus, Temir's throne, To Paquin of Sinaean kings, and thence To Agra and Lahore...

...edification, conducts him to 'a Hill / Of Paradise the highest', Not higher that Hill nor wider looking round, Whereon for different cause the Tempter set Our second Adam in the Wilderness, To shew him all Earths Kingdomes and thir Glory (381-4). From this hill Adam beholds the panorama of history...

...from whose top The hemisphere of earth in clearest ken Stretched out to amplest reach of prospect lay. His eye might there command wherever stood City of...mightiest empire, from the destined walls Of Cambalu. . . ... In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico. (II: 378-407) Michael gives Adam still greater powers...

...temptation of Christ; the mountain on which Adam and Michael stand has been compared to "that Hill . . . / Whereon for different cause the Tempter set / Our...Wilderness, / To show him all Earth's Kingdoms and thir Glory" (11.381-384). Christ, too, we infer, taught the felix culpa, choosing the fallen state...

...events of the poem and the present in which we read it: Not higher that Hill nor wider looking round, Whereon for different cause the Tempter set Our second Adam in the Wilderness, To show him all Earths Kingdomes and thir Glory. (XI, 381-384) The next twenty-seven lines give a kind of second catalogue...

...through the eyes of both the second Adam and the first:4 Not higher that Hill nor wider looking round, Whereon for different cause the Tempter set Our second Adam in the Wilderness, To shew him all Earths Kingdomes and thir Glory. His Eye might there command wherever stood City of old...