John Milton
1608-1674 / Male / English
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Paradise Lost: Book 10
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act / Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how / He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve,
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Paradise Lost: Book 01
Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
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Paradise Lost: Book 02
High on a throne of royal state, which far / Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, / Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
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Paradise Lost: Book 04
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw / The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, / Then when the Dragon, put to second rout,
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Samson Agonistes
Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy. / Tragedy, as it was antiently compos’d, hath been ever held the / gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems:
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A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before / The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. / The Persons
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Paradise Lost: Book 09
No more of talk where God or Angel guest / With Man, as with his friend, familiar us’d, / To sit indulgent, and with him partake
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Paradise Lost: Book 05
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime / Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, / When Adam waked, so customed; for his sleep
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Paradise Lost: Book 11
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn / From his displeasure; in whose look serene, / When angry most he seemed and most severe,
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Paradise Lost: Book 03
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, / Or of the Eternal coeternal beam / May I express thee unblam’d? since God is light,
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