Paradise Lost: A Poem, Volume 1Sharpe, 1821 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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... Moved our grand Parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The ...
... Moved our grand Parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The ...
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... moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield , Etherial temper , massy , large , and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ...
... moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield , Etherial temper , massy , large , and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ...
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... move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood . Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest ... Moved on in silence to soft pipes , that charm'd Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil : and now Advanced in view they ...
... move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood . Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised To height of noblest ... Moved on in silence to soft pipes , that charm'd Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil : and now Advanced in view they ...
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... moving onward came as fast With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode . The undaunted Fiend what this might be admired ; Admired , not fear'd ; God and his Son except , Created thing nought valued he , nor shunn'd ; And with ...
... moving onward came as fast With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode . The undaunted Fiend what this might be admired ; Admired , not fear'd ; God and his Son except , Created thing nought valued he , nor shunn'd ; And with ...
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... move new broils . Be this or aught Than this more secret now design'd , I haste To know ; and , this once known , shall soon return , And bring ye to the place where Thou and Death Shall dwell at ease , and up and down unseen Wing ...
... move new broils . Be this or aught Than this more secret now design'd , I haste To know ; and , this once known , shall soon return , And bring ye to the place where Thou and Death Shall dwell at ease , and up and down unseen Wing ...
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