“The shadow in it, which is nothing but the rarity of its body, in which the rays of the sun cannot terminate and be reflected, as in the other parts.”

“The shadow in it, which is nothing but the rarity of its body, in which the rays of the sun cannot terminate and be reflected, as in the other parts.”

Milton, Paradise Lost , V 419:⁠—

“Whence in her visage round those spots unpurged,

Vapors not yet into her substance turned.”