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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... thing could enhance the surpassing merits of this noblest achievement of poetry , it would be the circumstances under which its execution was completed : blind , reduced in his fortunes , " encompassed with dangers as well as with ...
... thing could enhance the surpassing merits of this noblest achievement of poetry , it would be the circumstances under which its execution was completed : blind , reduced in his fortunes , " encompassed with dangers as well as with ...
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... things , presenting Satan with his Ángels now falling into Hell described here , not in the centre ( for Heaven and Earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) , but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest ...
... things , presenting Satan with his Ángels now falling into Hell described here , not in the centre ( for Heaven and Earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) , but in a place of utter darkness , fitliest ...
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... Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly Thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings ...
... Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly Thou , O Spirit , that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings ...
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... things His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned , And with their darkness durst affront his light . First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; Though , for the noise of drums and ...
... things His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned , And with their darkness durst affront his light . First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; Though , for the noise of drums and ...
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... best Deserve the precious bane . And here let those , Who boast in mortal things , and wondering tell Of Babel , and the works of Memphian kings , Learn how their greatest monuments of fame , And strength 665-694 . BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
... best Deserve the precious bane . And here let those , Who boast in mortal things , and wondering tell Of Babel , and the works of Memphian kings , Learn how their greatest monuments of fame , And strength 665-694 . BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
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