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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... thence he proceeded to Genoa , to Florence , and to Rome , at- tended by the applauses and the compliments of the literati of Italy . At Naples he became the inmate of the venerable Manso , Marquis of Villa , the friend and biographer ...
... thence he proceeded to Genoa , to Florence , and to Rome , at- tended by the applauses and the compliments of the literati of Italy . At Naples he became the inmate of the venerable Manso , Marquis of Villa , the friend and biographer ...
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... thence attempt . Pandemonium , the palace of Satan , rises , suddenly built out of the deep : The infernal peers there sit in council . Or Man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought ...
... thence attempt . Pandemonium , the palace of Satan , rises , suddenly built out of the deep : The infernal peers there sit in council . Or Man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought ...
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... 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 all ...
... 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 all ...
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... thence in Heaven call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began . If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst ...
... thence in Heaven call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began . If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst ...
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... thence Had risen , or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all - ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs ; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil to ...
... thence Had risen , or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all - ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs ; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil to ...
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