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Paradise Lost
Again the Almighty spake, Let there be lights High in the expanse of Heaven, to divide The day from night; and let them be for signs, For seasons, and for days, and circling years; And let them be for lights, as I ordain Their office in the firmament of Heaven, To give light on the Earth; and it was so. He scarce had said, when the bare Earth, till then Desart and bare, unsightly, unadorned, Brought forth the tender grass, whose verdure clad Her universal face with pleasant green; Then herbs of every leaf, that sudden flowered Opening their various colours, and made gay Her bosom, smelling sweet: and, these scarce blown, Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub, And bush with frizzled hair implicit: Last Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed Their blossoms: With high woods the hills were crowned; With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side; With borders long the rivers: that Earth now Seemed like to Heaven, a seat where Gods might dwell, Or wander with delight, and love to haunt Her sacred shades: though God had yet not rained Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground None was; but from the Earth a dewy mist Went up, and watered all the ground, and each Plant of the field; which, ere it was in the Earth, God made, and every herb, before it grew On the green stem: God saw that it was good: So even and morn recorded the third day. Of fellowship I speak, :Such as I seek, fit to participate 390 All rational delight, wherein the brute Cannot be human consort : they rejoice? I think that this fact tells heavily against the hypothesis of Milton's indebtedness to Vondel. The volume was entered on the registers of the Stationers' Company under the date of October 6th, 1645. Adam assents, and, still desirous to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remembered since his own creation : his placing in Paradise ; his talk with God concerning solitude and fit society; his first meeting and nuptials with Eve. To me shall be the glory sole among The infernal Powers, in one day to have marred What he, Almighty styled, six nights and days Continued making, and who knows how long i Before had been contriving? Thither the son retired in July, 1632. We leave him directing his course towards the World.
Where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction; for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence, none whose portion is so small Of present pain that with ambitious mind Will covet more. She was reconciled to her husband in 1645, bore him four children, and died in 1652, in her twenty-seventh year. And a sidelight may be thrown not merely on the contemporary estimate of Grotius by the ex- ceptionally eulogistic mention of his works in the Theatrum Poetarum 1675 of Milton's nephew Edward Phillips. And you, my pastoral pipe, an life be lent me, shall hang on some sere pine, forgotten of me; or changed to native notes shall shrill forth British strains. Up he rode Followed with acclamation, and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps, that tuned Angelick harmonies: The earth, the air Resounded, thou rememberest, for thou heardst, The heavens and all the constellations rung, The planets in their station listening stood, While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. So fail not thou who thee implores; For thou art Heavenly, she an empty dream. Witness the streets of Sodom, and that night In Gibeah, when the hospitable door Exposed a matron, to avoid worse rape.
He was the first editor who took pains to secure accuracy of text, doing, on a smaller scale, for Milton what Theobald did for Shakespeare. Haec qui speraret quis crederet esse futurum? To this purpose was he dedicated as a boy: as Hannibal was dedicated, at the altar of patriotism, to the cause of his country's revenge, or Pitt to a life of political ambition. And thy request think now fulfilled, that asked How first this world and face of things began, And what before thy memory was done From the beginning; that posterity, Informed by thee, might know: If else thou seekest Aught, not surpassing human measure, say. Finding himself alone, Adam complains and requests a mate from God, who grants his request and creates Eve to be Adam's conjugal companion and helpmate. His violence thou fear'st not, being such As we, not capable of death or pain, I Can either not receive, or can repel. The abolition of Episcopacy was the watchword of the enemies of the Anglican Church the delenda est Carthago cry of Puritanism, and no one enforced the point with greater eloquence than Milton. Then stayed the fervid wheels and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This Universe, and all created things.
With these came they who, from the bordering flood Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts 420 Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names f Of Baalim and Ashtaroth those male, J I These feminine. There is no reason for thinking that he was not the author of sacred poems, as Bede represents him to have been ; but there is also no possibility of believing that the Paraphrase, as we have it, was written by him. A passage similar to the concluding sentence might be quoted from the pamphlet Animadversions, published the same year 1641 as the Church Government-, see P. Of the intensity of his application to literature a letter written in 1637 the exact day being Sept. Heaven casts thee out From all her confines; Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war. But what am I doing? Of consecutive rhymed lines, some being actual rhymed couplets, the following passages are examples : Paradise Lost, ii. Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell! That proud honour claimed Azazel as his right, a Cherub tall: Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurled The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind, With gems and golden lustre rich emblazed, Seraphic arms and trophies ; all the while Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds : 540 At which the universal host up-sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
The hasty multitude 730 Admiring entered, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In Heaven by many a towered structure high, Where sceptred Angels held their residence, And sat as princes, whom the supreme King Exalted to such power, and gave to rule, Each in his Hierarchy, the Orders bright. Secondly, the prose Argu- ments were transferred from the beginning and prefixed to their respective books. That Milton had heard of Vondel may be conceded. Most of these unconscious claimants were, like enough, unknown to Milton ; but some of them do seem to stand in a relation which demands recognition. Thus was the first day even and morn: Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the celestial quires, when orient light Exhaling first from darkness they beheld; Birth-day of Heaven and Earth; with joy and shout The hollow universal orb they filled, And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works; Creator him they sung, Both when first evening was, and when first morn. God, seeing how things are going, sends to warn Adam and Eve about Satan. Adam and Eve also now have a more distant relationship with God, who is omnipresent but invisible unlike the tangible Father in the.
Printed by his true Copies. But see the angry Victor hath recall'd His Ministers of vengeance and pursuit Back to the Gates of Heav'n: The Sulphurous Hail Shot after us in storm, oreblown hath laid The fiery Surge, that from the Precipice Of Heav'n receiv'd us falling, and the Thunder, Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless Deep. Unfortunately this was just the time when the Commonwealth stood most in need of his services. Let us make now Man in our image, Man In our similitude, and let them rule Over the fish and fowl of sea and air, Beast of the field, and over all the Earth, And every creeping thing that creeps the ground. Satan is deeply arrogant, albeit powerful and. Probably he chose aright ; but we could wish that the conditions under which he chose had been different. But his doom Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him: round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.
Two of the earliest indications of his cherished plan are the Vacation Exercise and the second Sonnet. Thirdly, a few changes were introduced into the text few of any great significance. While at St Paul's, Milton also had a tutor at home, Thomas Young, a Scotchman, afterwards an eminent Puritan divine the inspirer, doubtless, of much of his pupil's Puritan sympathies. He also against the house of God was bold: A leper once he lost, and gained a king Ahaz, his sottish conqueror, whom he drew Gods altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode, whereon to burn His odious offerings, and adore the gods Whom he had vanquished. To find out the truth of this Prophesie, and what to determin thereon he refers to a full Councel. However, the epic's illustrators also include , , , , and many others.
Thus Adam his illustrious guest besought: And thus the Godlike Angel answered mild. Milton's father had settled at Horton in Buckinghamshire. Again, God said, Let there be firmament Amid the waters, and let it divide The waters from the waters; and God made The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure, Transparent, elemental air, diffused In circuit to the uttermost convex Of this great round; partition firm and sure, The waters underneath from those above Dividing: for as earth, so he the world Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide Crystalline ocean, and the loud misrule Of Chaos far removed; lest fierce extremes Contiguous might distemper the whole frame: And Heaven he named the Firmament: So even And morning chorus sung the second day. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. At simul in ccelis Messiae insignia fulgent, Et currus animes, armaque digna Deo, 30 Horrendumque rotae strident, et saeva rotarum Erumpunt torvis fulgura luminibus, Et flammae vibrant, et vera tonitrua rauco Admistis flammis insonuere polo, Excidit attonitis mens omnis, et impetus omnis, Et cassis dextris irrita tela cadunt ; Ad pcenas fugiunt, et, ceu foret Orcus asylum, Infernis certant condere se tenebris. Milton, in fact, held a perpetual brief as advocate for his party.
It says also a very great deal for the father who suffered his son to follow in this manner the path of learning. Evening now approached For we have also our evening and our morn, We ours for change delectable, not need , Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 Desirous : all in circles as they stood, Tables are set, and on a sudden piled With Angels' food, and rubied nectar flows In pearl, in diamond, and massy gold, Fruit of delicious vines, the growth of Heaven. His spearto equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle, not like those steps On Heavens azure; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire. Without doubt, he was 1 See Dr Paget Toynbee's Dante in English Literature, I. Of flutes and soft recorders ; such as raised To highth of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage, With solemn touches, troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Yet, the tumult not so ending, God, on the third day, sends Messiah his Son, for whom he had reserved the glory of that victory.
