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Paradise Lost
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  • 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 Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions.†  (source)
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  • It was not until Andros read John Milton's Paradise Lost that he saw his destiny materialize before him.†  (source)
  • Her mind was filled with Paradise Lost, she told me later, showing me the notebook she still kept with its diagrams.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Paradise Lost, B. vii.†  (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)
  • Milton wrote Paradise Lost.†  (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)
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