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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... stars , and having set them in heaven , placed within them the light 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 ...
... stars , and having set them in heaven , placed within them the light 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 ...
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... stars ; ' that is , the phenomenon of the apparent retrograde , progressive , and stationary motions of the planets . As I have mentioned , only the earth's annual or orbital move- ment is required to explain this phenomenon . Having ...
... stars ; ' that is , the phenomenon of the apparent retrograde , progressive , and stationary motions of the planets . As I have mentioned , only the earth's annual or orbital move- ment is required to explain this phenomenon . Having ...
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... stars which do so far exceed the magnitude of our earth —this earth , that is but a point or center to them all those stars of such number and bigness . Every star in the equator must move 42,398,4371⁄2 miles in an hour . But the ...
... stars which do so far exceed the magnitude of our earth —this earth , that is but a point or center to them all those stars of such number and bigness . Every star in the equator must move 42,398,4371⁄2 miles in an hour . But the ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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