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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... regarded as heretical , and as stamping him as a materialist . Precisely why we should consider materialistic a conception which , as Henry More logically demonstrated , ultimately resolved all things into spirit , and thus made the ...
... regarded as heretical , and as stamping him as a materialist . Precisely why we should consider materialistic a conception which , as Henry More logically demonstrated , ultimately resolved all things into spirit , and thus made the ...
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... regarded Satan's angels as the gods and idols later worshipped by the heathen world . The result was the famous ' epic catalog ' of Book I. Miltonic scholarship has long described this enumera- tion of devils as an imitation of the list ...
... regarded Satan's angels as the gods and idols later worshipped by the heathen world . The result was the famous ' epic catalog ' of Book I. Miltonic scholarship has long described this enumera- tion of devils as an imitation of the list ...
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... regarded the cosmos as bounded by a tunic , a membrane , or a crystal shell . Seneca wrote that Artemidorus described the sphere as a hollow globe formed by the flying up and accumulation of atoms . The medieval philosopher Richard of ...
... regarded the cosmos as bounded by a tunic , a membrane , or a crystal shell . Seneca wrote that Artemidorus described the sphere as a hollow globe formed by the flying up and accumulation of atoms . The medieval philosopher Richard of ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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