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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 19
Page
... hate : At once , as far as Angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild : A dungeon horrible on all sides round , As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to ...
... hate : At once , as far as Angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild : A dungeon horrible on all sides round , As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to ...
Page
... hate , And courage never to submit or yield , And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me . To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee , and deify his power , Who from the terror of ...
... hate , And courage never to submit or yield , And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me . To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee , and deify his power , Who from the terror of ...
Page
... hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen , who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels : so thick bestrown , Abject and lost lay these , covering the flood , Under amazement of their hideous ...
... hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen , who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels : so thick bestrown , Abject and lost lay these , covering the flood , Under amazement of their hideous ...
Page
... hate ; Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell . With these came they , who , from the bordering flood Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground , had general names Of Baälim and Ashtaroth ; those male , These ...
... hate ; Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell . With these came they , who , from the bordering flood Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Egypt from Syrian ground , had general names Of Baälim and Ashtaroth ; those male , These ...
Page
... hate ; if what was urged Main reason to persuade immediate war , Did not dissuade me most , and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success ; When he , who most excels in fact of arms , In what he counsels , and in what excels ...
... hate ; if what was urged Main reason to persuade immediate war , Did not dissuade me most , and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success ; When he , who most excels in fact of arms , In what he counsels , and in what excels ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abdiel Adam adore Almighty Angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold Belial bliss Buckinghamshire burning lake call'd celestial chariot Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark deeds deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell Fiend fierce fiery fill'd fire flames flowers gates glory Gods gold golden grace hand happy hast hate hath Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill honour horrid host infernal Ithuriel JOHN MILTON JOHN SHARPE join'd King legions less light Messiah Moloch morn night o'er once ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd praise rage reign revenge RICHARD WESTALL round Satan seat seem'd Seraph Seraphim shade shalt shape sight soon sov'reign spake Spirits stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon