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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A Poem John Milton. Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With everburning sulphur unconsumed ...
A Poem John Milton. Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With everburning sulphur unconsumed ...
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A Poem John Milton. There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; And , reassembling our afflicted Powers , Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What ...
A Poem John Milton. There rest , if any rest can harbour there ; And , reassembling our afflicted Powers , Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy ; our own loss how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What ...
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... rest were long to tell , though far renown'd , The Ionian Gods , of Javan's issue ; held Gods , yet confess'd later than Heaven and Earth , Their boasted parents : Titan , Heaven's first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright ...
... rest were long to tell , though far renown'd , The Ionian Gods , of Javan's issue ; held Gods , yet confess'd later than Heaven and Earth , Their boasted parents : Titan , Heaven's first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright ...
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... rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch - Angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks ...
... rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch - Angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks ...
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