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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Page 122
... King . It lives , yet's Death ; it pleases full of pain : Monster ! ah who , who can thy being fain ? Thou shapeless shape , live Death . Combined in a single character , these inseparable com- panions provide a warden at hell gate , a ...
... King . It lives , yet's Death ; it pleases full of pain : Monster ! ah who , who can thy being fain ? Thou shapeless shape , live Death . Combined in a single character , these inseparable com- panions provide a warden at hell gate , a ...
Page 248
... king- dom as an harbinger , to prepare for a progress by ' our King . ' Satan's true purpose , however , was to proclaim himself ruler , and prepare an attack upon God . To this plan one angel objected , the faithful Abdiel . After a ...
... king- dom as an harbinger , to prepare for a progress by ' our King . ' Satan's true purpose , however , was to proclaim himself ruler , and prepare an attack upon God . To this plan one angel objected , the faithful Abdiel . After a ...
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... King came in , and finished about three years after the King's restoration . The second - hand version at times agreed with Phillips's direct account , on occasion added to it , and again par- tially differed from it . The repetition ...
... King came in , and finished about three years after the King's restoration . The second - hand version at times agreed with Phillips's direct account , on occasion added to it , and again par- tially differed from it . The repetition ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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