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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)
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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)
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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)
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But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions.† (source)
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I was fascinated by Paradise Lost and Dante's Inferno and Mike Carey's Lucifer.† (source)
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Paradise lost.† (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)
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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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—PARADISE LOST.† (source)
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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)
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Paradise Lost.† (source)
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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)
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—Paradise Lost, B. vii.† (source)
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Milton wrote Paradise Lost.† (source)
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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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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)
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