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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... included among the host led by Michael . Canon- ical , together with non - canonical books in their several versions , also provided a multitude of names suitable for use as adherents of Satan . We meet among Milton's group Belial ...
... included among the host led by Michael . Canon- ical , together with non - canonical books in their several versions , also provided a multitude of names suitable for use as adherents of Satan . We meet among Milton's group Belial ...
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... included description of the seventh day - the Sabbath upon which God rested , and contemplated his work . Later writers naturally and perhaps inevitably subscribed to this practice . As a result , Milton included in his account of the ...
... included description of the seventh day - the Sabbath upon which God rested , and contemplated his work . Later writers naturally and perhaps inevitably subscribed to this practice . As a result , Milton included in his account of the ...
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... included him with the four Presences of the Throne . Thomas Aquinas held in the Summa Theologica that God alone , and neither man nor angel , can so probe thought as to detect hypocrisy . As Milton's Satan subsequently obtained from ...
... included him with the four Presences of the Throne . Thomas Aquinas held in the Summa Theologica that God alone , and neither man nor angel , can so probe thought as to detect hypocrisy . As Milton's Satan subsequently obtained from ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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