Paradise Lostin a sentence
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In Paradise Lost, Milton condemns reverence for physical objects--however well intentioned.
Paradise Lost = admired Milton epic poem of original sin (1667)
- The influential English poet who wrote Paradise Lost was a contemporary of Galileo's and a savant who conspiracy buffs put at the top of their list of Illuminati suspects.† (source)
- As for Clarissa—all those daylight hours curled up on the bed with pins and needles in her arm—it surely proved the case of Paradise Lost in reverse—the heroine became more loathsome as her death-fixated virtue was revealed.† (source)
- Paradise Lost.† (source)
- Before we fled Bethlehem's drear libraries I had also recently read The Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, which have weaker plot lines than Dr. Jekyll, and many other books Our Father does not know about, including the poems of Miss Emily Dickinson and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque by Edgar Allan Poe.† (source)
- Paradise lost.† (source)
- But when a poet chooses to write a sonnet rather than, say, John Milton's epic Paradise Lost, it's not because he's lazy.† (source)
- I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend… John Milton, Paradise Lost .† (source)
- Long afterward, writing of this time in his boyhood, John Quincy Adams would recall secreting himself in a closet to smoke tobacco and read Milton's Paradise Lost, trying without success to determine what "recondite charm" in them gave his father so much pleasure.† (source)
- It was sparsely furnished, more office than home, and upon its whitewashed walls hung several outsize black-and-white photographs of Palestinian suffering—the long dusty walk into exile, the wretched camps, the weathered faces of the old ones dreaming of paradise lost.† (source)
- Her mind was filled with Paradise Lost, she told me later, showing me the notebook she still kept with its diagrams.† (source)
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- I was fascinated by Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno and Mike Carey's Lucifer.† (source)
- Hook at Alec and I feel like Lucifer in Paradise Lost.† (source)
- It was not until Andros read John Milton's Paradise Lost that he saw his destiny materialize before him.† (source)
- "…. if I recall correctly," Valentine was saying, "you are in fact familiar with Milton's Paradise Lost?"† (source)
- John Milton took most of his subject matter and a great deal of material for his great works from you-knowwhere: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes.† (source)
- —John Milton, Paradise Lost.† (source)
- But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions.† (source)
- Milton wrote Paradise Lost.† (source)
- Paradise lost, I. 125-26.† (source)
- —Paradise Lost, B. vii.† (source)
- —PARADISE LOST.† (source)
- In the family "keeping-room," as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books, equally solemn and respectable.† (source)
- The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.† (source)
- Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.† (source)
- Shakespeare above all made it available for serious dramatic poetry, and Milton canonized unrhymed iambic pentameter for epic in Paradise Lost.† (source)
- Milton's Paradise Lost and Pope's Iliad represent the Homeric apogee of the classical epic tradition; the Romantic preference for personal lyric over heroic epic did not extinguish Homer's influence, and the twentieth century found powerful new ways to use the old poem, from Joyce's Ulysses to Derek Walcott's Omeros.† (source)
- When I picked up Paradise Lost I could only remember it was about Adam and Eve and the Tree of Knowledge, but now I couldn't make sense of it.† (source)
- And then looking up from the table, it seems to me I saw myself, through Charlie's eyes, holding Paradise Lost, and I realized I was breaking the binding with the pressure of both hands as if I wanted to tear the book in half.† (source)
- —Have you found those six brave medicals, John Eglinton asked with elder's gall, to write Paradise Lost at your dictation?† (source)
- Paradise Lost 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…† (source)
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