2/24/2023 0 Comments Paradise lost book 1![]() ![]() Though changed in outward lustre, that fixed mind,Īnd high disdain from sense of injured merit, The force of those dire arms? Yet not for those, into what pit thou seestįrom what highth fallen, so much the stronger proved Joined with me once, now misery hath joined 90 Myriads though bright!-if he, whom mutual league, "If thou beest he,-but oh how fallen! how changedįrom him, who, in the happy realms of light,Ĭlothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Long after known in Palestine and named 80Īnd thence in Heaven called Satan, with bold words One next himself in power and next in crime, He soon discerns, and, weltering by his side, With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, There the companions of his fall, o'erwhelmed Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell! ![]() ![]() In utter darkness, and their portion set,Īs far removed from God and light of HeavenĪs from the centre thrice to the utmost pole. 70įor those rebellious, here there prison ordained That comes to all but torture without end Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peaceĪnd rest can never dwell, hope never comes 60Īs one great furnace flamed yet from those flames Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Reserved him to more wrath for now the thought Lay, vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, To mortal men, he with his horrid crew 51 Nine times the space that measures day and night Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud, He trusted to have equalled the Most High, 40 Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host The mother of mankind, what time his pride Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The infernal Serpent he it was, whose guile, Who first seduced them to that foul revolt. Moved our grand parents, in that happy state.įavored of Heaven so highly, to fall off 30įrom their Creator, and transgress his will,įor one restraint lords of the world besides Nor the deep tract of Hell-say first what cause Say first-for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, That, to the highth of this great argument, Pandemonium the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep the infernal Peers there sit in council. To find out the truth of this prophecy, and what to determine on, he refers to a full council. To these Satan directs his speech, comforts them with hopes yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created, according to an ancient prophecy or report in Heaven for that Angels were long before this visible creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. Satan awakens all his legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded they rise, their numbers, array of battle, their chief leaders named, according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining. Which action passed over, the poem hastens into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, described here, not in the Centre, (for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet accursed,) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos: here Satan, with his Angels lying on the burning lake, thunder-struck and astonished, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him they confer of their miserable fall. This First Book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, Man's disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed: then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the serpent who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven, with all his crew, into the great Deep. ![]()
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