The Works of the English Poets, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Vol. 2: The Poems of Milton (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Milton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1527662993 ISBN 13: 9781527662995

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Vol. 2: The Poems of Milton

Satan having compafs'd the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mil't by night into Paradife, enters Into the setnt flee ing. Adam and Eve in the morning go orth to t eir labors, which Eve propofes to divide in feveral places, each laboring apart Adam confents not, alledgin the dan er, left that enemy, of whom they were orewarn' fliould at tempt her found alone: Eve, loath to be thought not circumfpeét or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather delirous to make trial of her (trength; Adam at lalt yields: The Serpent finds her alone; his fubtle approach, firfi gazing, then (peaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures. Eve, wondering to hear the Serpent (peak, alks how he attain'd to human fpeech and fuch underftandin not till now; the Serpent anfwers, that by talting é a certain tree in the garden he attain'd both to fpeech and reafon, till then void of both: Eve requires him to bring her to that tree, and finds it to be the tree of knowledge forbidden The Serpent now. Grown holder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat; {he pleas'd with the talte delibe rates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at lafi brings him of the fruit, relates what per fuaded her to eat thereof: Adam at'firft amaz'd, but.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1527662993
• ISBN 13: 9781527662995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251