Paradise Lost
by
John Milton New York: Alden, 1884.
Ilustrations
by
Gustave Doré
Paradise Lost:
BOOK ONE
01, 4-4
Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill
Satan hath journey'd on, pensive and slow.
01, 4-4
Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky
01, 21-22
Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
His mighty stature.
01, 33-2
They heard and were abashed, and up they sprumg.
01, 34-95
So numberless were those bad Angels seen
Hovering on wing, under the cope of Hell.
01, 75-97
Their summons called
From every band and squared regiment
By place or choice the worthiest.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK TWO
02, 79-9
High on a throne of royal state, which far
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind.
02, 142-6
Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
02, 144-6
Before the gates there sat
On either side a formidable shape.
02, 174-5
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way
And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK THREE
03, 219-7
Heaven rung
With jubilee, and loud hosannas filled
The eternal regions.
03, 232-3
And many more too long
Embryos, and idiots, eremites, and friars.
03, 258-9
Towards the coast of Earth beneath,
Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success,
Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK FOUR
04, 266-6
Me miserable! which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
04, 292-5
The savoury pulp they chew, and in the find,
Still as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream.
04, 283-7
A happy rural seat of various view.
04, 317-8
So promised he; and Uriel to his charge
Returned.
04, 338-7
These to the bower direct
In search of whom they sought.
04, 360-3
Nor more; but fled
Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night,
Paradise Lost:
BOOK FIVE
05, 361-6
Leaning, half-raised, with looks of cordial love
Hung over her enamoured.
05, 391-3
Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape
Comes this way moving?
05, 406-1
To whom the winged Hierarch replied:
O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom
All things proceed.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK SIX
06, 468-9
This greeting on thy impious crest receive.
06, 470-8
Now storming fury rose,
And clamour, such as heard in heaven till now
Was never.
06, 482-8
Then Satan first knew pain
And writhed him to and fro.
06, 490-7
Now Night her course began.
06, 491-1
On the foughten field
Michael and his angels, prevalent
Encamping, placed in guard their watches round.
06, 537-3
Nine days they fell.
06, 537-6
Hell at last
Yawning, received them whole.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK SEVEN
07, 571-2
Wave rolling after wave, where way they found;
If steep, with torrent rapture.
07, 580
And God said: Let the waters generate
Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul
And let fowl fly above the earth.
07, 582-8
And seems a moving land; and at his gills
Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
07, 583
Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores,
Their brood as numerous hatch.
07, 599-5
And now on earth the seventh
Evening arose in Eden.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK EIGHT
08, 669-4
So parted they; the Angel up to heaven
From the thick shade, and Adam to his bower.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK NINE
09, 677
In with the river sunk, and with it rose,
Satan.
09, 679-6
O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred
More justly.
09, 687-8
Him fast sleeping, soon he found,
In labyrinth of many a round, self-rolled.
09, 712-10
Nearer he drew, and many a walk traversed
Of stateliest covert, cedar, pine, or palm.
09, 748-1
Back to the thicket slunk
The guilty serpent.
09, 781-6
Nor only tears
Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within
Began to rise.
Paradise Lost:
BOOK TEN
10, 798-4
They heard
And from his presence hid themselves among
The thickest trees.
10, 832-4
And now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign worlds.
10, 840-6
Dreadful was the din
Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now
With complicated monsters, head and tail.
10, 849-5
This said, they both betook them several ways.
11, 919-7
The heavenly hands
Down from a sky of jasper lighted now
In Paradise.
11, 970-7
Began to build a vessel of huge bulk.
11, 972-6
All dwellings else
Flood overwhelmed, and them with all their pomp,
Deep under water rolled.
12, 1011-4
They beseech
That Moses might report to them his will,
And terror cease.
12, 1052-55
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.