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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... light , Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; BOOK I. PARADISE LOST . 155-184 .
... light , Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the tossing of these fiery waves ; There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; BOOK I. PARADISE LOST . 155-184 .
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... thither haste where stood Their great Commander ; Godlike shapes , and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities ; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted ...
... thither haste where stood Their great Commander ; Godlike shapes , and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities ; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted ...
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... Thither , if but to pry , shall be perhaps Our first eruption ; thither or elsewhere : For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage , nor the abyss Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts Full counsel must ...
... Thither , if but to pry , shall be perhaps Our first eruption ; thither or elsewhere : For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage , nor the abyss Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts Full counsel must ...
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... Thither , wing'd with speed , A numerous brigad hasten'd : as when bands Of pioneers , with spade and pickaxe arm'd , Forerun the royal camp , to trench a field , Or cast a rampart . Mammon led them on ; Mammon , the least erected ...
... Thither , wing'd with speed , A numerous brigad hasten'd : as when bands Of pioneers , with spade and pickaxe arm'd , Forerun the royal camp , to trench a field , Or cast a rampart . Mammon led them on ; Mammon , the least erected ...
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... Thither let us bend all our thoughts , to learn What creatures there inhabit , of what mould , Or substance , how endued , and what their power , And where their weakness , how attempted best , By force or subtlety . Though Heaven be ...
... Thither let us bend all our thoughts , to learn What creatures there inhabit , of what mould , Or substance , how endued , and what their power , And where their weakness , how attempted best , By force or subtlety . Though Heaven be ...
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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