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*lines 1-128 Adam awakes surprised to
find Eve still sleeping. He admires her beauty and then wakes her by calling
her his new delight. She wakes and embraces Adam fearfully. She then tells
Adam of a terrible dream she has had in which an angel tempts her into
eating the forbidden fruit. The angel convinces Eve to eat the fruit by
telling her that it will make her a goddess. Eve eats. Adam is scared by
Eve's dream, but he comforts her by telling her that he knows she would
never eat the forbidden fruit.
[377-450] Adam leads Raphael to his
home in Eden. Eve is standing naked waiting for them. Raphael greets her,
calling her the mother of mankind. Adam invites Raphael to join them in
a meal, but Adam is not quite sure whether or not angels can eat the same
food. Raphael explains that he can eat the same food -- showing that men
and angels aren't totally different.

Paradise Lost Book 10 Outline

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*410-22 They go to earth while Satanenters hell.422-48 The fallen angels are holdingcouncil at Pandemonium. Satan slips in disguised as an angel of the lowestorder. He then makes himself invisible and watches what is going o

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Paradise Lost Book 9 Outline

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Paradise Lost Book 8 Outline

249: Adam begins his account of hisown creation.253-285: Adam wakes up and looksaround. He peruses and tries out his own body. He admires earth and theheavens, finding that he can name whatever he sees. He wonders how he cameto be.285-310: Adam falls as

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Paradise Lost- Book Seven Outline

Lines 1-39 Milton calls upon Urania,the muse of astronomy, and religious inspiration. This is his third invocationto the muse inPL.

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Milton: Paradise Lost - Book 1

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he who reigns
Monarch in Heav'n, till then as one secure
Sat on his Throne,
upheld by old repute,
Consent or custome, and his
Regal State [ 640 ]
Put forth at
full, but still his strength conceal'd,
Which tempted our attempt, and wrought
our fall.
the great consult began.
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- Mean while the winged Haralds by
  command
  Of Sovran power, with awful Ceremony
  And Trumpets sound
  throughout the Host proclaim
  A solemn Councel forthwith to be held [ 755 ]
  At Pandæmonium, the high Capital
  Of Satan and his Peers: thir summons call'd
  From every Band and squared Regiment
  By
  place or choice the worthiest; they anon
  With hunderds and with thousands trooping came [ 760 ]
  Attended: all access was throng'd, the Gates
  And Porches
  wide, but chief the spacious Hall
- Mammon led them on,
  Mammon,
  the least erected Spirit that fell
  From heav'n, for ev'n in heav'n
  his looks and thoughts [ 680 ]
  Were
  always downward bent, admiring
  more
  The riches of Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,
  Then aught divine or holy else enjoy'd
  In vision beatific: by him first
  Men also, and by his suggestion
  taught, [ 685 ]
  Ransack'd the Center, and with impious hands
  Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother Earth
  For Treasures better hid. Soon had
  his crew
  Op'nd into the Hill a
  spacious wound
  And dig'd out
  ribs of Gold. Let none admire [ 690 ]
  That riches grow in Hell; that soyle may best
  Deserve the precious bane.
- he ere long
  Intended to create, and therein plant
  A generation, whom his choice
  regard
  Should favour equal to
  the Sons of Heaven:
  
  Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps
  
  Our first eruption, thither or elsewhere:
- this Infernal Pit shall
  never hold
  Cælestial
  Spirits in Bondage, nor th' Abyss
  Long under darkness cover. But these thoughts
  Full Counsel must mature: Peace is despaird, [ 660
  ]
  For who can think Submission? Warr then, Warr
  Open or understood must be resolv'd.
- our better part remains [ 645 ]
  To work in close design, by fraud or guile
  What force effected not: that he no less
  At length from us may find, who
  overcomes
  By force, hath overcome
  but half his foe.
- He now prepar'd [ 615
  ]
  To speak; whereat thir
  doubl'd Ranks they bend
  From
  wing to wing, and half enclose him round
  With all his Peers: attention held
  them mute.
  Thrice he assayd,
  and thrice in spight of scorn,
  Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last [ 620 ]
  Words interwove with sighs found
  out thir way.
- He through the armed
  Files
- Belial came last, then whom a Spirit more lewd [ 490 ]
  Fell not from Heaven, or more
  gross to love
  Vice for it self: To him no Temple stood
  Or Altar smoak'd; yet who more oft then hee
  In Temples and at Altars, when the Priest
  Turns Atheist, as did Ely's Sons, who fill'd [ 495 ]
  With lust and violence the house of God.
  In Courts and Palaces he also
  Reigns
  And in luxurious Cities, where the noyse
  Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs,
  And injury and outrage: And when Night [ 500 ]
  Darkens the Streets, then wander
  forth the Sons
  Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
  Witness the Streets of Sodom, and that night
  In
  Gibeah, when the hospitable door
  Expos'd a Matron to avoid worse rape. [ 505 ]
- Dagon his
  Name, Sea Monster, upward Man
  And downward Fish:
- Thammuz came next behind,
  Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd
  The Syrian Damsels
  to lament his fate
  In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,
  While smooth
  Adonis
  from his native Rock [ 450 ]
  Ran
  purple to the Sea, suppos'd with
  blood
  Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the Love-tale
  Infected Sions daughters with like
  heat,
  Whose wanton passions in the sacred Porch
  Ezekiel saw, when by the Vision led [ 455 ]
  His eye survay'd the dark Idolatries
  Of alienated Judah.
- Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians call'd
  Astarte, Queen of
  Heav'n, with crescent Horns;
  To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon [
  440 ]
  Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,
  In Sion also not unsung,
  where stood
  Her Temple on th' offensive
  Mountain,
- Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moabs Sons,
  From Aroar to Nebo, and the wild
  Of Southmost Abarim; in
  Hesebon
  And Horonaim, Seons Realm, beyond
  The flowry Dale of Sibma clad with Vines, [ 410 ]
  And Eleale to th' Asphaltick Pool.
  Peor his other Name, when he entic'd
  Israel in Sittim on thir
  march from Nile
  To do him wanton rites, which cost
  them woe.
  Yet thence his lustful Orgies he enlarg'd [ 415
  ]
  Even to that Hill of
  scandal, by the Grove
  Of Moloch homicide, lust
  hard by hate;
  Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.
- First
  Moloch,
  horrid King besmear'd with blood
  Of human sacrifice, and
  parents tears,
  Though for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud
  Thir childrens cries
  unheard, that past through
  fire [ 395 ]
  To his grim Idol. Him
  the Ammonite
  Worshipt in Rabba and her watry Plain,
  In Argob and in Basan, to the stream
  Of utmost Arnon. Nor content with such
  Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest
  heart [ 400 ]
  Of Solomon he led by fraud to build
  His Temple right against
  the Temple of God
  On that opprobrious Hill, and made his Grove
  The pleasant Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence
  And black Gehenna
  call'd, the Type of Hell. [ 405 ]
- Nor had they yet among the Sons of Eve
  Got them new Names, till wandring ore the Earth, [ 365
  ]
  Through Gods high sufferance for the tryal of man,
  By falsities and lyes the greatest part
  Of Mankind they corrupted to
  forsake
  God thir Creator, and
  th' invisible
  Glory of him that
  made them, to transform [ 370 ]
  Oft to the Image of a Brute,
  adorn'd
  With gay Religions full of Pomp and Gold,
  And Devils to adore for Deities:
  Then were they known to men by various Names,
  And various Idols through
  the Heathen World. [ 375 ]
- As when the potent Rod
  Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day
  Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud [
  340 ]
  Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern
  Wind,
  That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung
  Like Night, and darken'd all
  the Land of Nile:
  So numberless were those bad
  Angels seen
  Hovering on wing under the Cope of Hell [ 345
  ]
  'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires;
  Till, as a
  signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear
  Of thir great Sultan
  waving to direct
  Thir course,
  in even ballance down they
  light
  On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; [ 350 ]
- Princes, Potentates, [ 315 ]
  Warriers, the Flowr of Heav'n, once yours, now lost,
  If such astonishment as
  this can sieze
  Eternal spirits; or have ye chos'n this place
  After the toyl of Battel
  to repose
  Your wearied vertue,
  for the ease you find [ 320 ]
  To
  slumber here, as in the Vales of Heav'n?
  Or in this abject posture have ye sworn
  To adore the Conquerour? who
  now beholds
  
  Cherube
  > and Seraph rowling in the Flood
  With scatter'd Arms and Ensigns, till
  anon [ 325 ]
  His swift pursuers from
  Heav'n Gates discern
  Th' advantage, and descending tread us
  down
  Thus drooping, or with linked Thunderbolts
  Transfix us to the
  bottom of this Gulfe.
  Awake,
  arise, or be for ever fall'n. [ 330 ]
- scatterd sedge
  Afloat, when with fierce Winds Orion arm'd [
  305 ]
  Hath vext the
  Red-Sea Coast, whose waves orethrew
  Busiris and his Memphian Chivalry,
  While with perfidious hatred they
  pursu'd
  The Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld
  From the safe shore thir floating Carkases [ 310 ]
  And broken Chariot Wheels, so thick
  bestrown
  Abject and lost lay these, covering the Flood,
  Under
  amazement of thir hideous change.
- the superiour Fiend
  Was moving toward
  the shoar; his ponderous shield
  
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, [
  285 ]
  Behind him cast; the broad
  circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the Moon,
  whose Orb
  Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views
  At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole,
  Or in Valdarno,
  to descry new Lands, [ 290 ]
  Rivers
  or Mountains in her spotty Globe.
  His Spear, to equal which the tallest
  Pine
  Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast
  Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand,
  He
  walkt with to support uneasie steps [ 295 ]
  Over the burning Marle, not like those steps
  On Heavens Azure, and the
  torrid Clime
  Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with Fire;
  Nathless he so endur'd, till on the Beach
  Of that
  inflamed Sea, he stood and call'd [ 300 ]
  His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans't
  Thick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the
  Brooks
  In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
  High overarch't imbowr;
- him Beelzebub
  Thus answer'd.
- Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
  Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat
  That we must change for Heav'n,
  this mournful gloom
  For that celestial light? Be it so, since he [ 245 ]
  Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid
  What shall be
  right: fardest from him is
  best
  Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream
  Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields
  Where Joy for ever dwells:
  Hail horrours, hail [ 250 ]
  Infernal world, and thou
  profoundest Hell
  Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
  A mind not
  to be chang'd by Place or Time.
  The mind is its own place,
  and in it self
  Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. [ 255 ]
  What matter where, if I be still the same,
  And what I should be, all but
  less then he
  Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
  We
  shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
  Here for his envy, will
  not drive us hence: [ 260 ]
  Here we
  may reign secure, and in my choyce
  To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
  Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
- glorying to have scap't the Stygian flood
  As Gods, and by thir own recover'd strength, [
  240 ]
  Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.
- Such resting found the
  sole
  Of unblest
  feet.
- till on dry Land
  He lights, if it
  were Land that ever burn'd
  With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire;
- Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate
  With Head up-lift above the wave,
  and Eyes
  That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides
  Prone on the Flood,
  extended long and large [ 195 ]
  Lay
  floating many a rood, in bulk as
  huge
  As whom the Fables name of monstrous size,
  Titanian, or Earth-born, that
  warr'd on Jove,
  Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den
  By ancient
  Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast [ 200 ]
  Leviathan, which God of all his
  works
  Created hugest that swim th' Ocean stream:
  Him haply slumbring on the Norway
  foam
  The Pilot of some small night-founder'd Skiff,
  Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, [ 205 ]
  With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind
  Moors by his side under
  the Lee, while Night
  Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes:
- Fall'n Cherube, to be
  weak is miserable
  Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure,
  To do
  ought
  >
  good never will be our task,
  But ever to do ill our sole delight, [ 160
  ]
  As being the contrary to his high will
  Whom we resist. If
  then his Providence
  Out of
  our evil seek to bring forth good,
  Our labour must be to pervert that
  end,
  And out of good still
  to find means of evil; [ 165 ]
  Which oft times may succeed, so as perhaps
  Shall grieve him,
  if I fail not, and disturb
  His inmost counsels from thir destind
  aim.
- ought
- what if he our Conquerour,
  (whom I now
  Of force believe Almighty, since no less
  Then such could hav orepow'rd such force as ours) [ 145 ]
  Have left us this our spirit and strength
  intire
  Strongly to suffer and
  support our pains,
  That we may so suffice his vengeful ire,
  Or do him
  mightier service as his thralls
  By right of Warr, what e're
  his business be [ 150 ]
  Here in the
  heart of Hell to work in Fire,
  Or do his Errands in the gloomy Deep;
  What can it then avail though yet we feel
  Strength undiminisht, or eternal being
  To undergo
  eternal punishment? [ 155 ]
- And him thus
  answer'd soon his bold Compeer.
- that fixt mind
  And high disdain, from sence of injur'd merit,
  That with the
  mightiest rais'd me to contend,
  And to the fierce contention brought along [
  100 ]
  Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd
  That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,
  His utmost
  power with adverse power oppos'd
  In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n,
  And shook his throne. What though the field
  be lost? [ 105 ]
  All is not lost;
  the unconquerable Will,
  And study of revenge, immortal hate,
  And
  courage never to submit or yield:
  And what is else not to be overcome?
  That Glory never shall his wrath or might [
  110 ]
  Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
  With suppliant
  knee, and deifie his power,
  Who
  from the terrour of this Arm so
  late
  Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed,
  That were an ignominy
  and shame beneath [ 115 ]
  This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods
  And this Empyreal substance
  cannot fail,
  Since through experience of this great event
  In Arms not
  worse, in foresight much advanc't,
  We may with more successful hope
  resolve [ 120 ]
  To wage by force or guile eternal Warr
  Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe,
  Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy
  Sole reigning holds
  the Tyranny of Heav'n.
- yet not for those,
  Nor what the Potent
  Victor in his rage [ 95 ]
  Can else
  inflict, do I repent or change,
  Though chang'd in outward lustre;
- Satan, with bold words
  Breaking the horrid silence thus began.
- But his doom
  
  Reserv'd him to more wrath; for
  now the thought
  
  Both of lost happiness and lasting pain [ 55
  ]
  
  Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes
  
  That witness'd huge affliction
  and dismay
  
  Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:
- Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose
  guile
  
  Stird up with Envy and Revenge,
  deceiv'd [ 35 ]
  
  The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride
  
  Had cast him out from Heav'n, with
  all his Host
  
  Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring
  
  To set himself in Glory above his Peers,
  
  He trusted to have equal'd the
  most High, [ 40 ]
  
  If he oppos'd;
- here thir Prison ordain'd
  In utter darkness, and
  thir portion set
  As far remov'd from God and light of Heav'n
  As from the Center thrice to th' utmost Pole.
  O how unlike the
  place from whence they fell! [ 75 ]
- Him the Almighty Power
  
  Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie [ 45 ]
- say first what cause
  
  Mov'd our Grand Parents in that
  happy State,
  
  Favour'd of Heav'n so highly, to fall off [ 30 ]
  
  From thir Creator, and transgress
  his Will
  
  For one restraint, Lords of the World besides?
  
  Who first seduc'd them to that
  foul revolt?
- What in me is dark
  
  Illumin, what is low raise and
  support;
  
  That to the highth of this great
  Argument
  
  I may assert Eternal Providence, [ 25 ]
  
  And justifie
  the wayes of God to men.
- I thence
  
  Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
  
  That with no middle flight intends to soar
  
  Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues [ 15 ]
  
  Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
- appear'd in hue, as when the force [ 230 ]
  Of subterranean wind transports a Hill
  Torn from Pelorus, or the shatter'd side
  Of thundring Ætna, whose combustible
  And fewel'd entrals thence conceiving Fire,
  Sublim'd with Mineral fury, aid the Winds, [ 235 ]
  And leave a singed bottom all
  involv'd
  With stench and
  smoak
- - Terms educated people should know (because they're kind of cool, really):
    
    Invocation to the Muse
    
    Creation ex nihilo (out of nothing)
    
    Interesting Twists: Milton Christianizing the Pagan Epics (Homer and Virgil):
    The Muse
    Parnassus
    
    - on 2007-11-11
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Milton: Paradise Lost - Book 2

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From this descent

Celestial vertues rising, will appear [ 15 ]

More glorious and more dread then from no fall,

And trust themselves to fear no second fate:

Mee though just right, and the fixt Laws of Heav'n

Did first create your Leader, next free choice,

With what besides, in Counsel or in Fight, [ 20 ]

Hath bin achievd of merit, yet this loss

Thus farr at least recover'd, hath much more

Establisht in a safe unenvied Throne

Yielded with full consent.
Powers and Dominions, Deities of Heav'n,
- This is Satan speaking. There are no quotation marks to show it, but you can tell, can't you? - on 2007-11-13
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- by what best way, [ 40 ]
  
  Whether of open Warr or covert guile,
  
  We now debate; who can advise, may speak.
- My sentence is for open Warr:
- But perhaps [ 70 ]
  
  The way seems difficult and steep to scale
  
  With upright wing against a higher foe.
  
  Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench
  
  Of that forgetful Lake benumm not still,
  
  That in our proper motion we ascend [ 75 ]
  
  Up to our native seat: descent and fall
  
  To us is adverse.
- As he our darkness, cannot we his Light
  
  Imitate when we please? This Desart soile [ 270 ]
  
  Wants not her hidden lustre, Gemms and Gold;
  
  Nor want we skill or Art, from whence to raise
  
  Magnificence; and what can Heav'n shew more?
  
  Our torments also may in length of time
  
  Become our Elements, these piercing Fires [ 275 ]
  
  As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd
  
  Into their temper; which must needs remove
  
  The sensible of pain. All things invite
  
  To peaceful Counsels, and the settl'd State
  
  Of order, how in safety best we may [ 280 ]
  
  Compose our present evils, with regard
  
  Of what we are and were, dismissing quite
  
  All thoughts of warr: ye have what I advise.
- Suppose he should relent
  
  And publish Grace to all, on promise made
  
  Of new Subjection; with what eyes could we
  
  Stand in his presence humble, and receive [ 240 ]
  
  Strict Laws impos'd, to celebrate his Throne
  
  With warbl'd Hymns, and to his Godhead sing
  
  Forc't Halleluiah's; while he Lordly sits
  
  Our envied Sovran, and his Altar breathes
  
  Ambrosial Odours and Ambrosial Flowers, [ 245 ]
  
  Our servile offerings. This must be our task
  
  In Heav'n, this our delight; how wearisom
  
  Eternity so spent in worship paid
  
  To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue
  
  By force impossible, by leave obtain'd [ 250 ]
  
  Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state
  
  Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek
  
  Our own good from our selves, and from our own
  
  Live to our selves, though in this vast recess,
  
  Free, and to none accountable, preferring [ 255 ]
  
  Hard liberty before the easie yoke
  
  Of servile Pomp.
- hus Mammon spake.
- Thus Belial with words cloath'd in reasons garb
  
  Counsell'd ignoble ease, and peaceful sloath,
  
  Not peace:
- This is now
  
  Our doom; which if we can sustain and bear,
  
  Our Supream Foe in time may much remit [ 210 ]
  
  His anger, and perhaps thus farr remov'd
  
  Not mind us not offending, satisfi'd
  
  With what is punish't; whence these raging fires
  
  Will slack'n, if his breath stir not thir flames.
  
  Our purer essence then will overcome [ 215 ]
  
  Thir noxious vapour, or enur'd not feel,
  
  Or chang'd at length, and to the place conformd
  
  In temper and in nature, will receive
  
  Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain;
  
  This horror will grow milde, this darkness light, [ 220 ]
  
  Besides what hope the never-ending flight
  
  Of future dayes may bring, what chance, what change
  
  Worth waiting, since our present lot appeers
  
  For happy though but ill, for ill not worst,
  
  If we procure not to our selves more woe. [ 225 ]
- On th' other side up rose
  
  Belial, in act more graceful and humane;
  
  A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seemd [ 110 ]
  
  For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
  
  But all was false and hollow; though his Tongue
  
  Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear
  
  The better reason, to perplex and dash
  
  Maturest Counsels: for his thoughts were low; [ 115 ]
  
  To vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds
  
  Timorous and slothful: yet he pleas'd the ear,
  
  And with perswasive accent thus began.
- What fear we then? what doubt we to incense
  
  His utmost ire? which to the highth enrag'd, [ 95 ]
  
  Will either quite consume us, and reduce
  
  To nothing this essential, happier farr
  
  Then miserable to have eternal being:
  
  Or if our substance be indeed Divine,
  
  And cannot cease to be, we are at worst [ 100 ]
  
  On this side nothing; and by proof we feel
  
  Our power sufficient to disturb his Heav'n,
  
  And with perpetual inrodes to Allarme,
  
  Though inaccessible, his fatal Throne:
  
  Which if not Victory is yet Revenge. [ 105 ]