Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1Sharpe, 1821 - Bible In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of execution, Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence toward authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to justify the ways of God to men, or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. |
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... God , and drawing to his side many legions of Angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of Heaven , with all his crew , into the great deep . Which action passed over , the Poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting ...
... God , and drawing to his side many legions of Angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of Heaven , with all his crew , into the great deep . Which action passed over , the Poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting ...
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... God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly Thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before ...
... God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly Thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before ...
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... God , Raised impious war in Heaven , and battle proud , With vain attempt . Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the etherial sky , With hideous ruin and combustion , down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In ...
... God , Raised impious war in Heaven , and battle proud , With vain attempt . Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the etherial sky , With hideous ruin and combustion , down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In ...
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... God and light of Heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole . O , how unlike the place from whence they fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ...
... God and light of Heaven As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole . O , how unlike the place from whence they fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ...
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... Gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage , by force or guile , eternal war ...
... Gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage , by force or guile , eternal war ...
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