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 23
... universe , God cast the rebel Satan into hell . This Deity could not have done , said the argu- ment , if hell were placed within the earth . Earth then did not exist . The belief that Satan fell from heaven before God built the universe ...
... universe , God cast the rebel Satan into hell . This Deity could not have done , said the argu- ment , if hell were placed within the earth . Earth then did not exist . The belief that Satan fell from heaven before God built the universe ...
Page 129
... universe was a hollow spherical body both impenetrable and opaque . It enclosed the several planetary spheres which Ptolemaic astronomy placed about an unmoved and central earth , and protected both earth and its world from the storms ...
... universe was a hollow spherical body both impenetrable and opaque . It enclosed the several planetary spheres which Ptolemaic astronomy placed about an unmoved and central earth , and protected both earth and its world from the storms ...
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... universe could not move circularly - which heaven does , and that heavy substances would progress to the center , and the light from it . Daneau imagined that under the doctrine we should have no night , and ' never almost ' any ...
... universe could not move circularly - which heaven does , and that heavy substances would progress to the center , and the light from it . Daneau imagined that under the doctrine we should have no night , and ' never almost ' any ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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