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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... Hill , near Shotover , in Oxfordshire . Her desertion of him , soon after he brought her home to London , under the pretence of revisiting her family , was the occasion of his publications on the " Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ...
... Hill , near Shotover , in Oxfordshire . Her desertion of him , soon after he brought her home to London , under the pretence of revisiting her family , was the occasion of his publications on the " Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ...
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... hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted ...
... hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted ...
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... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Ętna , whose combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds , And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke ...
... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Ętna , whose combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds , And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke ...
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... hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , He walk'd with , to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle , not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted with ...
... hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , He walk'd with , to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle , not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted with ...
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... hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of Hell . Next , Chemos , the obscene dread of Moab's sons , From Aroer to Nebo , and the wild Of southmost Abarim ; in Hesebon ...
... hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of Hell . Next , Chemos , the obscene dread of Moab's sons , From Aroer to Nebo , and the wild Of southmost Abarim ; in Hesebon ...
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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