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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... bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now misery hath join'd In equal ruin ! Into what pit thou seest , From what height fallen ; so ...
... bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now misery hath join'd In equal ruin ! Into what pit thou seest , From what height fallen ; so ...
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... . Leader of those armies bright , Which but the Omnipòtent none could have foil'd ! If once they hear that voice , their liveliest pledge 1 Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft 245-274 . BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
... . Leader of those armies bright , Which but the Omnipòtent none could have foil'd ! If once they hear that voice , their liveliest pledge 1 Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft 245-274 . BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
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... bright or obscure , Can execute their airy purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their Living Strength , and unfrequented left His righteous altar , bowing lowly down To bestial Gods ...
... bright or obscure , Can execute their airy purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their Living Strength , and unfrequented left His righteous altar , bowing lowly down To bestial Gods ...
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... bright . Nor was his name unheard , or unadored , In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber ; and how he fell From Heaven , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon ...
... bright . Nor was his name unheard , or unadored , In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber ; and how he fell From Heaven , they fabled , thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon ...
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... A thousand Demi - gods on golden seats , Frequent and full . After short silence then , And summons read , the great consult began . Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright . Then 785-798 . BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
... A thousand Demi - gods on golden seats , Frequent and full . After short silence then , And summons read , the great consult began . Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright . Then 785-798 . BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
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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