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Despite blustering to the contrary, his conquest over humanity is more imagined than believed, for in the Niphates speech of book 4 he rightly perceives that base motives must yield base results.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Despite blustering to the contrary, his conquest over humanity is more imagined than believed, for in the Niphates speech of book 4 he rightly perceives that base motives must yield base results.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Evaluating the Post-Secular Return to Belief Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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But before I descend, I must not forget to relate that to this pile of desolation on which, like the fallen angel on the top of Niphates, we stood contemplating our nether Eden, His Excellency was pleased to give the name of
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Behind them tower the massive ridges of the Niphates and Zagros ranges, where the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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The Parthian calls it first Choatras and afterward Niphates; the Syrian and Armenian call it Taurus; the Scythian names it Caucasus and Rhipaeus, and at its end calls it Taurus.
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes
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At x 49 _Niphates_ is an interpolation from Lucan III 245.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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With these records of bygone "majestic pains," on the other hand, the genius of Milton and Wordsworth seemed made to sympathise; and the former is never greater than standing on Niphates Mount with Satan, or upon the "hill of Paradise the highest" with Michael, or upon the
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Directed by the unsuspecting Uriel, Satan sped downward and standing upon the top of Niphates, surveyed Eden.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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Wilton lights on the top of Niphates, which he will do soon, young Evson will discover that he's a scamp.
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His lighting 'on Niphates' top, 'and overleaping the gate of Paradise, may be used as arguments either way.
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