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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... HELL HE shifting panorama of Milton's epic now has dis- THE closed the coming of evil into heaven , the overthrow of Satan , and the creation of man and his world . From the new - born earth , the scene shifted to hell , where Milton ...
... HELL HE shifting panorama of Milton's epic now has dis- THE closed the coming of evil into heaven , the overthrow of Satan , and the creation of man and his world . From the new - born earth , the scene shifted to hell , where Milton ...
Page 103
... hell , Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven . To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better ...
... hell , Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven . To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better ...
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... hell , ' and from this point calmly surveyed the whirling elements . The ' brink ' of hell Beaumont previously had used in his Psyche , and , inter- estingly enough , had placed there two foul monsters , ' ghastly Death and poisnous Sin ...
... hell , ' and from this point calmly surveyed the whirling elements . The ' brink ' of hell Beaumont previously had used in his Psyche , and , inter- estingly enough , had placed there two foul monsters , ' ghastly Death and poisnous Sin ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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