[Milton-L] Query: Cataracts in Justo Eduoardo King Naufrago

[Jameela Lares]

Thanks, Judith.  Sheesh, page 14 of the anthology, not Todd!  I'll now retire
abashed, but gratefully.

Thanks also to Carl Bellinger for his offer.  I've got the text on EEBO, so
should be fine.

Jameela

Quoting Judith Herz <jherz at alcor.concordia.ca>:

> It's on p.14, the Samson Briggs contribution:
> For when because of sinne God, opened all
> Heavens cataracts, to let his vengeance fall,
> etc.
> Judith Herz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jameela Lares" <Jameela.Lares at usm.edu>
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> Subject: [Milton-L] Query: Cataracts in Justo Eduoardo King Naufrago
>
>
> > Colleagues,
> >
> > Is there a searchable online version (or someone's mental equivalent) of
> > Justo
> > Eduoardo King Naufrago (1637), the collection of elegies that included
> > Milton's
> > Lycidas?  I'm trying to find important comments on Paradise Lost 11.824-35
> > ("all
> > the Cataracts / Of Heav'n set open") and have a note that one of the poems
> > has
> > the language "God open'd all / Heaven's cataracts."  I've looked through
> > the
> > English line ends but don't see it, and don't have the time at present to
> > comb
> > the text or for that matter to look for cataractae and cognates in the
> > Latin
> > and Greek.  Can someone point me to a searchable database or happen to
> > recognize the passage?  My source for the note is putatively "Todd," but I
> > am
> > not finding it in H. J. Todd's 1809 variorum commentary.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jameela
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Jameela Lares, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive, #5037
Hattiesburg, MS  39406-0001
601 266-6214 ofc
601 266-5757 fax