Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Джон Мильтон

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      Contents

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

PARADISE LOST

BOOK I

BOOK II

BOOK III

BOOK IV

       BOOK V

       BOOK VI

       BOOK VII

       BOOK VIII

       BOOK IX

       BOOK X

       BOOK XI

       BOOK XII

       PARADISE REGAINED

       THE FIRST BOOK

       THE SECOND BOOK

       THE THIRD BOOK

       THE FOUR BOOK

       CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES ADAPTED FROM THE COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       HISTORY OF COLLINS

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

BOOK I

      Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit

      Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste

      Brought death into the World, and all our woe,

      With loss of Eden, till one greater Man

      Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,

      Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top

      Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire

      That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed

      In the beginning how the heavens and earth

      Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill

      Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed

      Fast by the oracle of God, I thence

      Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,

      That with no middle flight intends to soar

      Above th’ Aonian mount, while it pursues

      Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

      And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer

      Before all temples th’ upright heart and pure,

      Instruct me, for thou know’st; thou from the first

      Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,

      Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,

      And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark

      Illumine, what is low raise and support;

      That, to the height of this great argument,

      I may assert Eternal Providence,

      And justify the ways of God to men.

      Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,

      Nor the deep tract of Hell—say first what cause

      Moved our grand parents, in that happy state,

      Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off

      From their Creator, and transgress his will

      For one restraint, lords of the World besides.

      Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?

      Th’ infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,

      Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived

      The mother of mankind, what time his pride

      Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host

      Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring

      To set himself in glory above his peers,

      He trusted to have equalled the Most High,

      If he opposed, and with ambitious aim

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