Milton- Paradise Lost Volume Bks. 1-4 (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. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...irriguous valley spread her store, . 255 Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose: Another side, --umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall 260 Down the slope hills dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams; The birds their quire apply; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune 265 The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, HerselFa fairer flower, by_gloorny_Dis-_ 270 Was gathered (which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world), nor that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle, 275 Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye; Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard, 280 Mount Amara, though this by some supposed True Paradise, under the Ethiop line By Nilus' head, inclosed with shining rock, A whole day's journey high, --but wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the Fiend 285 Saw undelighted all delight, all kind Of living creatures, new to sight and strange. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Satan's Godlike erect, with native honour clad IrfAdam1 In nae majesty, seemed lords of all, 290 and Eve; And worthy seemed; for in thejr looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure--Severe but in true filial