Note 2 — Chapter I
Reading edition
Milton speaks of the Gryphon as a “guardian of gold,” but that can clearly have no connection with our animal, whose propensities in respect to the precious metals are quite of an opposite tendency.
Reading edition
Milton speaks of the Gryphon as a “guardian of gold,” but that can clearly have no connection with our animal, whose propensities in respect to the precious metals are quite of an opposite tendency.