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...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe* With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire i That shepherd, who first...

...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste. Bronght death into the world, and all our woe. With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat; Sing, heav'nly Muse In these instances, as in most others, we seldom hear the word all pronounced sufficiently...

...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, .With loss of Eden, till one greater...Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Orcb, or of .Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first...

..."accounts, of the Pentateuch; but, according to the generajity of writers, of all the Old Testament. " Muse, that on the secret top " Of Oreb or of Sinai,...inspire " That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seedv "In the beginning, how the heav.ns and earth " Rose out of chaos. Or if Sion hill " Delight thee...

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...disobedience, and the frnit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe. With loss of Eden, till one greater Man...us, and regain the blissful seat. Sing heavenly Muse — — — — -~* MILTON. V-/UR first progenitors, when recent from the hand of Omipotence, were...

...disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, 'till one greater...Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly muse These lines are perhaps as plain, simple, and unadorned, as any of the whole poem, in...

...universally follow the Greek in other cases, why not in this ? Milton adopts the Greek: Sing, heav'nly muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didst inspire That shepherd God, from the mount of Sinai, whose grey top Shall tremble, he, descending, will himself, In thunder,...

...pleasure, an openingis given to an unlimited variety. Observe the effects in the first lines of the Paradise Lost. Of man's first disobedience, || and...all our woe, With loss of Eden, || till one greater. Man Restore us, || and regain the blissful scat, Sing, heavenly muse. In these, and the lines which...