Milton's Paradise Lost; Books I and II (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...wings, 700 Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before ' So spake the grisly Terror, and in shape, So speaking and so threatening, grew tenfold 705 More dreadful and deform. On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge They prepare ln the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair 710 or com a. shakes pestilence and war. Each at the head Leveled his deadly aim; their fatal hands No second stroke intend; and such a frown Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian, then stand front to front, 716 Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid-air. So frowned the mighty combatants, that Hell Grew darker at their frown; so matched they stood; For never but once more was either like 721 To meet so great a foe. And now great deeds Had been achieved, whereof all Hell had rung, Had not the snaky sorceress, that sat Fast by Hell-gate and kept the fatal key, 725 The snaky Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between. sorceress s. 'Against thy only son? What fury, O son 'O father, what intends thy hand, ' she cried, interposes. J Possesses thee to bend that mortal dart Against thy father's head? And know'st for whom? For Him who sits above, and laughs the while 731 At thee, ordained His drudge, to execute Whate'er His wrath, which He calls justice, bids--His wrath, which one day will destroy ye both.' She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest 735 Forbore; then these to her Satan returned: --8 'So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange Thou interposest, that my...