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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... worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage , by force or guile , eternal war , Irreconcilable to our grand Foe , Who now triumphs , and , in the excess of joy Sole reigning , holds the tyranny ...
... worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage , by force or guile , eternal war , Irreconcilable to our grand Foe , Who now triumphs , and , in the excess of joy Sole reigning , holds the tyranny ...
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... worse rape . These were the prime in order and in might ; The 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 ...
... worse rape . These were the prime in order and in might ; The 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 ...
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... worse , He reck'd not ; and these words thereafter spake . My sentence is for open war : Of wiles , More unexpert , I boast not : them let those Contrive who need , or when they need ; not now . For , while they sit contriving , shall ...
... worse , He reck'd not ; and these words thereafter spake . My sentence is for open war : Of wiles , More unexpert , I boast not : them let those Contrive who need , or when they need ; not now . For , while they sit contriving , shall ...
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... worse destroy'd : What can be worse Than to dwell here , driven out from bliss , condemn'd In this abhorred deep to utter woe ; Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when ...
... worse destroy'd : What can be worse Than to dwell here , driven out from bliss , condemn'd In this abhorred deep to utter woe ; Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when ...
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... worse appear The better reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful ; yet he pleased the ear , And with persuasive accent thus began , I ...
... worse appear The better reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful ; yet he pleased the ear , And with persuasive accent thus began , I ...
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