![]() Many scholars consider Paradise Lost to be one of the greatest poems in the English language. So without least impulse or shadow of Fate, Or aught by me immutable foreseen, They trespass, Authors to themselves in all Both what they judge and what they choose for so I form’d them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves: I else must change Thir nature, and revoke the high Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which ordain’d Thir freedom: they themselves ordain’d thir fall. Paradise Lost, epic poem in blank verse, one of the late works by John Milton, originally issued in 10 books in 1667 and, with Books 7 and 10 each split into two parts, published in 12 books in the second edition of 1674. They therefore as to right belong’d, So were created, nor can justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate As if Predestination over-rul’d Thir will, dispos’d by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I if I foreknew Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov’d certain unforeknown. tags: patrick-rothfuss, quotes, temple, the-wise-man-s-fear, woman. Not free, what proof could they have giv’n sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appear’d, Not what they would? what praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When Will and Reason (Reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil’d, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not mee. Paradise Lost Quotes Showing 121-150 of 339 If we were living in a better age theyd build a temple around a woman like that. ![]() Such I created all th’ Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who fail’d Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plact: Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven. First are those myths that follow in the tradition 1 Comus, 11. Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee All he could have I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Paradise Lost, in the fable itself, in allusion, in simile, and even in syntax and word-play.'3 As we shall see in more detail, Milton employs the myths primarily in three ways in the poem.
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