... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...estruction: if there be in Hell Paradise Lost Milton 21 Fear to be worse destroy’d: what can be worse Then to dwell here, driv’n out from bliss, c... ...n the Scourge Inexorably, and the torturing houre Calls us to Penance? More destroy’d then thus We should be quite abolisht and expire. What fear we ... ... Among themselves, and levie cruel warres, Wasting the Earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes... ...ng Gulf, And there take root an Iland salt and bare, The haunt of Seales and Orcs, and Sea mews clang. To teach thee that God attributes to place No s...

... . . . . . . 214 BOOK X. - i - BOOK I. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death int... ... our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, 5 Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top Of ORE... ... top Of OREB, or of SINAI, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth Rose out ... ...n: Paradise Lost To our destruction: if there be in Hell Fear to be worse destroy’d: what can be worse 85 Then to dwell here, driv’n out from blis... ... Scourge 90 Inexorably, and the torturing houre Calls us to Penance? More destroy’d then thus We should be quite abolisht and expire. What fear... ...Among themselves, and levie cruel warres, Wasting the Earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish ... ..., And there take root an Iland salt and bare, 830 The haunt of Seales and Orcs, and Sea-mews clang. To teach thee that God attributes to place ...

...Excerpt: BOOK I; Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast 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 Heav?nly Muse, that on the secret top O...