![]() ![]() To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell :īetter to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. ![]() Here we may reign secure and, in my choice, Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 260 We shall be free * the Almighty hath not built Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least What matter where, if I am still the same,Īnd what I should be, all, but less than he Actually, later editions of it broke it into 12 to try to mimic The Aeneid, which is the Latin poet Virgil’s major work. It’s blank-verse, so it doesn’t rhyme, and it’s broken up into ten books. It’s 10,000 lines long, so it’s an undertaking if you want to read the whole thing. Outshon the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand. The mind is its own place, and in itself *Ĭan make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. As we mentioned, Paradise Lost was published in 1667. HIgh on a Throne of Royal State, which far. Receive thy new possessor - one who bringsĪ mind not to be changed by place or time. Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, 250 He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast.Ībove his equals. No wonder, fallen such a pernicious high! “ Groveling and prostrate on the yon lake of fire, 280 New courage and revive, though now they he Their surest signal - they will soon resume Of battle, when it raged, in all assaults Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Instruct me, for thou knowest thou from the first The story of Paradise Lost is Biblical and theme falls into three parts, the major themes of this epic are the theme of disobedience, manifestation of Eternal. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.Īnd chiefly thou, O Spirit, that does preferīefore all temples the upright heart and pure, That with no middle flight intends to soar That shepherd who first taught the chosen seedĪt the beginning how the heavens and earthĭelight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed Sing, Heavenly Muse,* that, on the secret top Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Lewis wrote, 'Every poem can be considered in two ways as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. ![]() With the loss of Eden, till one greater Man Moses Dresser Phillips (1813-1859) was the senior member of Phillips, Sampson and Company, a very successful Antebellum publishing firm, and the founder of.Source: Paradise Lost. Of that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteīrought death into the World, and all our woe, Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit ![]()
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