Paradise Lost: An Account of Its Growth and Major OriginsRussell & Russell, 1963 - 362 pages Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books with minor revisions throughout. |
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... creation of the angels aeons before God had created the physical world . Subsequent theologians , and particularly the Latin Fathers , generally rejected this belief . Never- theless , they did not condemn it as heretical . Thomas ...
... creation of the angels aeons before God had created the physical world . Subsequent theologians , and particularly the Latin Fathers , generally rejected this belief . Never- theless , they did not condemn it as heretical . Thomas ...
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... created the first day . Of this light , the major part fell to the sun , whose beams when reflected augmented the much smaller portion allotted each star and planet . The basic conception , according to which the clouded light created ...
... created the first day . Of this light , the major part fell to the sun , whose beams when reflected augmented the much smaller portion allotted each star and planet . The basic conception , according to which the clouded light created ...
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... creation . Moreover , Raphael's in- struction of Adam represented in part the natural de- velopment of a further conception employed in support of the single day interpretation — that newly created man was untrained in obedience , and ...
... creation . Moreover , Raphael's in- struction of Adam represented in part the natural de- velopment of a further conception employed in support of the single day interpretation — that newly created man was untrained in obedience , and ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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