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... Adam Little- ton in 1685 , by sundry persons , of whom , though their names are concealed , there is reason to conjecture that Milton's nephew , Edward Philips , is one ; for it is expressly said by Wood , ( Fasti , vol . i . p . 266 ...
... Adam Little- ton in 1685 , by sundry persons , of whom , though their names are concealed , there is reason to conjecture that Milton's nephew , Edward Philips , is one ; for it is expressly said by Wood , ( Fasti , vol . i . p . 266 ...
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... Adam , Eve , } with the Serpent . Conscience . Adam . Death . Eve . Labour , Conscience . Sickness , Labour , Discontent , Mutes . Sickness , Ignorance , Discontent , Mutes . with others ; Ignorance , Faith . Fear , Hope . Death ...
... Adam , Eve , } with the Serpent . Conscience . Adam . Death . Eve . Labour , Conscience . Sickness , Labour , Discontent , Mutes . Sickness , Ignorance , Discontent , Mutes . with others ; Ignorance , Faith . Fear , Hope . Death ...
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... Adam's ruin . Chorus fears for Adam , and relates Lucifer's rebel- lion and fall . ACT IV . Adam , Eve , fallen . Conscience cites them to God's examination . Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . ACT V. Adam and Eve ...
... Adam's ruin . Chorus fears for Adam , and relates Lucifer's rebel- lion and fall . ACT IV . Adam , Eve , fallen . Conscience cites them to God's examination . Chorus bewails , and tells the good Adam has lost . ACT V. Adam and Eve ...
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... Adam unparadised : The angel Gabriel , either descending or entering ; showing , since this globe was created , his frequency as much on earth as in heaven ; describes Paradise . Next , the Chorus , showing the reason of his coming to ...
... Adam unparadised : The angel Gabriel , either descending or entering ; showing , since this globe was created , his frequency as much on earth as in heaven ; describes Paradise . Next , the Chorus , showing the reason of his coming to ...
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... Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accuse one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife ; is stubborn in his offence . Jus- tice appears , reasons with him , convinces him . The Chorus admonisheth Adam , and bids ...
... Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accuse one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife ; is stubborn in his offence . Jus- tice appears , reasons with him , convinces him . The Chorus admonisheth Adam , and bids ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.