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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... nature do nothing the more difficult way , and the second , that the ethereal globes of heaven are more noble than the gross earth . Well might Adam ask of Raphael why the im- measurable heavens should hasten about our sphere : When I ...
... nature do nothing the more difficult way , and the second , that the ethereal globes of heaven are more noble than the gross earth . Well might Adam ask of Raphael why the im- measurable heavens should hasten about our sphere : When I ...
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... nature did both alike proceed . . . . Nor does God less admirably discover himself unto us in nature's actions than in the Scriptures ' sacred dictions , which peradventure Tertullian intended to express in those words : . . . ' God is ...
... nature did both alike proceed . . . . Nor does God less admirably discover himself unto us in nature's actions than in the Scriptures ' sacred dictions , which peradventure Tertullian intended to express in those words : . . . ' God is ...
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... nature only , are so far from thinking that there is anything singular in this world , as that they will scarce think that this world itself is singular , but that every planet , and every star , is an- other world like this . They find ...
... nature only , are so far from thinking that there is anything singular in this world , as that they will scarce think that this world itself is singular , but that every planet , and every star , is an- other world like this . They find ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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