The Poetical Works of John Milton; With the Life of the Author ... Volume 1 (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. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...ethereal quintessence of Heaven Flew upward, spirited with various forms, That rolled orbicular, and turned to stars Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move; Each had his place appointed, each his course 3 The rest in circuit alls this universe. Look ctbwnward on that globe, whose hither side With light from hence, though but rellected, shmes That place is earth, the scat of man, that light His day, which else, as the other hemisphere, Night would iuvade; but there the neighboring (So call that opposite fair star) her aid moon Timely interposes, and her monthly round Still ending, still renewing, through mid Heaven. With borrowed light her countenance triform Hence fills and cmpiies to enlighten the earth, And in her pale dominion checks the night, That spot to which I point is Paradise, Adam's abode; those lofty shades, his bower. Thy way thou cans't not miss, me mine etquires." Thus said, he turned; and Satan, bowing low, As to superior spirits is wont in Heaven, Where honour due and reverence none neglects, Took leave, and toward the coast of ea.r'h beneath Down from th' ecliptic: lped with hoped success. Throws his steep flight in many an airy wheel; Nor stayed, till on Niphates' top he lights. END OF THE THIRD Boo. PARADISE LOST. BOOK IV. Sataic, now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair: but at length conf, rms himself in evil; journeys on to Paradise, ose outward prospect and situation isdescribed; overleaps the bounds; sits in the shape of a cormorai't on the tree of life, as highest in the garden, to look about him. The garden described: Satan's...