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...With those lines of Voltaire, one of their greatest poets, let us contrast the opening of Milton's Paradise Lost: " Of man's first disobedience, and...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...

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...humains, Le fruit mortel cueilli par leurs coupables mains , i. 3 Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man...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...

...double summit, (like Рагпадеив) forming two peaks, one Horeb, the otln'r Sinai. So Milton: "Sing heavenly muse, that on the sacred top Of Horeb, or of Sinai, didst inspire" &c. — ¿и ф\оу1 TTvpàs ß.] Literally, in a flame of a bush of fire, ie on fire, unless the...

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...kept the fatal key, Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between. EXERCISE XXIII. INTRODUCTION TO PARADISE LOST. OF man's first disobedience, and the...the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Siuai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In...

...disobedience, and the fruit Or that forbidden tree, whoae mortal taste Brought death into the world and eople would suffer very much from their poverty and cold, if they had not good cheer, warm fires, an heav'nly muse! These lines are, perhaps, as plain, simple, and unadorned, as any of the whole poem,...

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